Shoot, I thought I read it carefully and yet I completely missed that
right on the summary page!

1/4 mile in open air under ideal conditions...  I'll probably have to
support both this and the xbee, which complicates a whole bunch of
things.

Nicely low powered, though.

Thanks for looking!

-Adam

On 8/4/08, Timothy Weber <tw@timothyweber.org> wrote:
> M. Adam Davis wrote:
> > Regarding Microchip's new RF transceiver module
> > http://www.microchip.com/stellent/idcplg?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&nodeId=1335&dDocName=en535967
> >
> > I was wondering if anyone knows the range of this particular
> > implementation?  I realize it depends greatly on a variety of factors,
> > but I'm hoping someone has a ballpark figure so I know whether to
> > target it out of the gate, or build in support for the XBEE modules in
> > case testing comes back with dismal numbers.
> >
> > The data sheet appears to have lots of info regarding receiver,
> > transmitter, and antenna performance, but I don't know how to turn
> > that into "ideal" distance.
>
> The data sheet does say "Up to 400m Range (outdoor, line-of-sight)",
> which seems pretty impressive on ~20 mA.  And by impressive I mean not
> very plausible - but I'll be interested to see.  At $10 in singles, this
> could give the XBee a real challenge.
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