In a message dated 7/14/99 7:50:02 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
paulb@MIDCOAST.COM.AU writes:

> Jim Ruxton wrote:
>
>  > Hi ,I'm looking for a small 2.4 GHz TX - RX pair for a PIC based
>  > project I'm working on. The RX should be small enough to strap onto a
>  > PDA without it becoming to obtrusive.
>
>    I think you've got a conceptual problem here.  (Low-power) 2.4 GHz
>  equipment is portable, not mobile.  It works by sitting the unit on some
>  furniture and aiming receiver at transmitter and vice versa.
>
>    You may not have to aim too accurately, but it is not the sort of
>  thing you walk around with.  Even less so if it's one-way because you
>  depend on acknowledgements and retransmission ("packet" protocols) to
>  get the data through if the link is anything other than fixed.
>  --
>    Cheers,
>          Paul B.
>
How do the newer 2.4GHz cordless phones work then?!  Do you have to talk in
the same room as the reciever and stand in a certain posistion? I think not.
Matt