On 2014-03-23 15:25, Dean Gibson AE7Q wrote:

On 2014-03-21 18:05, Dean Gibson AE7Q wrote:

Pending a permanent installation, I now have the antenna outside my 2nd story window (pictures pending), hanging from the 2nd story rain gutter (plumbing PVC piping/fittings make excellent mounting fixtures!). This has resulted in about a 5dB increase in signal strength. [...] Now I do not have to leave the window open ...

-- Dean AE7Q

Antenna inside (-89dBm):

http://www.ae7q.net/media/5.9GHz-1.jpg
http://www.ae7q.net/media/5.9GHz-2.jpg

Antenna just outside the window (-84dBm):

http://www.ae7q.net/media/5.9GHz-3.jpg
http://www.ae7q.net/media/5.9GHz-4.jpg -- God left a gap in the (many) trees, right in the path to Paine field ...

The initial outside location, from the street ...

http://www.ae7q.net/media/5.9GHz-5.jpg
http://www.ae7q.net/media/5.9GHz-6.jpg

Move the antenna 8 feet east for a 9dB signal strength increase (-75dBm = three green lights (power/ethernet + two signal "bars") ...

http://www.ae7q.net/media/5.9GHz-7.jpg
http://www.ae7q.net/media/5.9GHz-8.jpg
http://www.ae7q.net/media/5.9GHz-9.jpg

The nice thing about the mounting, is that there is NO attachment to the house, which makes adjustment trivial (sliding the mounting hooks in the rain gutter). Even the Ethernet cable goes through pre-existing screening in attic vents. The whole thing can be removed from the house without a trace in 20 minutes (10 minutes, if one is young and agile, which I am neither). It's (reasonably) light-weight (another plus, for the same personal reasons).

Bart -- you are free to use the pictures in your MicroHams talk tomorrow.