Re: Amazon Sidewalk is a new long-range wireless network for your stuff – TechCrunch

[grarpamp at gmail.com (grarpamp)]

On 9/26/19, jim bell <jdb10987 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> To me, one of the big unmet opportunities is that today, nearly every house
> has WiFi installed, and most of them can 'hear' their nearest neighbor's
> signals.   What could be done with this opportunity?  We don't know, because
> nobody has implemented anything using this.

Clearly the right thing to do is canvas the streets swapping
any users remaining telco owned ones over to user owned ones.
Install a real wifi OS on them.
Setup a second band across them all for a giant meshnet.

Or turn them into the worlds biggest radio astronomy project.
Unfortunately those radios have no known hardware API
to get at the raw RF.