Hi Folks, A couple of years ago we at the Lake Washington Ham Club looked at using Hamwan for our limited connectivity needs. At the time, there didn't appear to be very good coverage at our site. I looked at it again today, and the coverage looks much better (the black square is our site... 47.663751°, -122.166478°). [image: image.png] Does the map account for trees? Are there any height requirements for the antenna? We have a huge water tank about 20 feet east of the building. We do have a tower, but getting the hamwan antenna up there would be a challenge. Is there a way we could do a site survey? We don't have a large bandwidth need. All we need is support for Echolink, Telnet, and (for now) IRLP, as well as AllStar in the future. Thanks for any input. Don Sayler W7OXR Treasurer LWHC
You need clear line of sight and trees are a problem. I think you have high trees surrounding your tower. You antenna needs to be positioned so it clears the trees, either over them or through a gap in the tree line. Trees and 5GHz don't play nice together. -Doug- On Sat, Oct 10, 2020 at 7:13 PM Don Sayler <don.sayler@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Folks,
A couple of years ago we at the Lake Washington Ham Club looked at using Hamwan for our limited connectivity needs. At the time, there didn't appear to be very good coverage at our site.
I looked at it again today, and the coverage looks much better (the black square is our site... 47.663751°, -122.166478°). [image: image.png]
Does the map account for trees? Are there any height requirements for the antenna? We have a huge water tank about 20 feet east of the building. We do have a tower, but getting the hamwan antenna up there would be a challenge. Is there a way we could do a site survey?
We don't have a large bandwidth need. All we need is support for Echolink, Telnet, and (for now) IRLP, as well as AllStar in the future.
Thanks for any input. Don Sayler W7OXR Treasurer LWHC _______________________________________________ PSDR mailing list PSDR@hamwan.org http://mail.hamwan.net/mailman/listinfo/psdr
Thanks Doug. That's what I figured. On Sat, Oct 10, 2020 at 7:37 PM Doug Kingston <dpk@randomnotes.org> wrote:
You need clear line of sight and trees are a problem. I think you have high trees surrounding your tower. You antenna needs to be positioned so it clears the trees, either over them or through a gap in the tree line. Trees and 5GHz don't play nice together.
-Doug-
On Sat, Oct 10, 2020 at 7:13 PM Don Sayler <don.sayler@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Folks,
A couple of years ago we at the Lake Washington Ham Club looked at using Hamwan for our limited connectivity needs. At the time, there didn't appear to be very good coverage at our site.
I looked at it again today, and the coverage looks much better (the black square is our site... 47.663751°, -122.166478°). [image: image.png]
Does the map account for trees? Are there any height requirements for the antenna? We have a huge water tank about 20 feet east of the building. We do have a tower, but getting the hamwan antenna up there would be a challenge. Is there a way we could do a site survey?
We don't have a large bandwidth need. All we need is support for Echolink, Telnet, and (for now) IRLP, as well as AllStar in the future.
Thanks for any input. Don Sayler W7OXR Treasurer LWHC _______________________________________________ PSDR mailing list PSDR@hamwan.org http://mail.hamwan.net/mailman/listinfo/psdr
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