Ham Radio License >.<)[

As it turns out, there's a bit involved in ensuring that something as seemingly trivial as radio waves and their uses remain within the bounds of the law. In order to transmit anything over a distance, you'll need a Ham Radio License with at least a Technician rating in order to even get started. And, as you might have inferred from "rating," to gain access to frequencies with larger wavelengths (and, thusly, more reach), you'll need a higher rating, of which there is the General and Extra licenses.

Studying for the Ham Radio Exam is simple, if you know what to know. If you are fortunate enough to know what to know, such test items as "How does FM work?" would be of no surprise, with the natural response being "By varying wave frequency enough to get a legible message across," and other interesting, if otherwise incomprehensible queries such as "How does packet radio correct for errors?" or "What is meant by the ARQ Protocol?"

Given that signal processing is becoming an ever-larger, more terrifying and necessary evil for this project, it is safe to say that these next four weeks will be, if anything, eventful. 

The AC Radio we'll be using (UISP BaseStation), courtesy of Ubiquiti Inc.