Well, we wre not using HTs - in fact, HTs had NOTING to do with it

We ran the output of the WiFi card into a "linear amp" of the right frequency range

Your tech license is about a LOT more than "HTs" - it's about being able to use all of our frequencies above 50Mhz - for lots of different things. The lower part of the band (2.4 Ghz) what 802.11 b/g is in has Ham radio as it's primary allocation, and they TYPE of modulation used by wifi ) is allowed to us - aka we can build wifi radios with a LOT of output - Hint, per Part 97, on the modulation scheme used by 802.11g, we have a max permissible output power of - ready for this, 1500 Watts PEP (vs Milliwatts in Part 15 - aka what regular users use), throw that into a 24 dBi disk, and you have 376.8 Killowatts ERP coming out of the front of that dish (as I said, you REALLY REALLY don't want to walk in front of that dish, in fact, you don't even want to be in front of a standard Omni at those freqs and power levels - think 1500 watt microwave)

take a 2.4 Ghz radio, modulate it the right way, put it on the WiFi channel (say Ch1) - and you have WiFi - at high power