On 6/6/15 9:03 PM, Bart Kus wrote:
We pointed the dish at a random hillside across the water from Luther Burbank, and picked up Capitol Park @ up to -73dBm. Bouncing off this hillside we got 3.5Mbit download and 5Mbit upload speeds to the Internet.
I guess the lesson here is: If you don't have a direct path to a HamWAN cell site, perhaps you can try playing with some indirect reflected paths to get connected!
Very cool! Bart, are these dual pol links or vertical only? If they are vertical only, did you try switching to horizontal at your client end? Generally a single reflection will cause a 90 degree shift in polarization. Some times over multiple ones you can have some fun things happen that you can't model. Also in most cases a passive reflector is only going to be useful if one station is very close to it with the other being further away. 73's W9CR -- Bryan Fields 727-409-1194 - Voice 727-214-2508 - Fax http://bryanfields.net