Accurate, certifiable, timing is the important thing. Wire labor is an
inconvenience. Nobody wants to go wireless any more than those of us involved
with wire laydown, pickup and maintenance. Dan Wright was instrumental in
getting a test of a wireless system at WOS. Results were promising but not
ready for prime time. There a lot of considerations including mass near the
course. If you build it they will not only come, they will hit it. GPS is
accurate to microseconds but only updates once per second. Using GPS to
synchronize oscillators is one plan under consideration. It's still many
thousands of dollars for each eye and much testing for dependably. There is a
lot of infrastructure behind a successful wireless network. 802.11x goes
about 300 ft we need to go 6000-8000 ft .
Gary W
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