Antenna

I have 2 x 27 dBi square grid dishes (Kenbotong), the ones that are two part construction. They are $130 ea or $250 for both with free shipping to Air-Stream members.

http://www.kenbotong.com/products/TDJ-5158SPL4-TDJ-5158SPL6-Parabolica-Antenna.htm

G'day,

I've just finished setting up my antenna+AP, all psyched about joining the AS network, failed to pickup any nodes. I thought I would post and ask the pro's if they could suggest anything.

My build:
17dB "Intenna" from freenet antennas http://store.freenet-antennas.com/product_info.php?products_id=267&osCsid=74e8f8720ca6b5e03885b76368916ae9
UltraWAPv2 (90mW), attached via ~30cm pigtail.
Mounted on house roof in burton, approx 5m from ground.

There are intermittent trees surrounding the area and so I am probably shooting blanks, and the access nodes were just behind the beautiful foliage; but after spending days on research/planning/building/reconfiguring my network/and money, I dont want to give up without asking if there is any hope.

hey guys looking at getting onto the network now i get my nanostation2 and hills antenna.
Just need some help getting a cable

i need a RP SMA Male Connector to N Female Cable?

anyone know where i can buy one from?

Thanks

Jacob kairl

Here is an intereting blog post on long distance optical links.

There was my link to Skye running pretty well (trees in the way) when I decided my grid parabola seemed a few degrees off so of course I swivelled it slightly, long story short my connectivity is now much worse!! Subsequent attempts to get it back have been less than successful, well I can pass packets if you don't mind >40% packet loss - ouch! I'll be dragging the laptop up on the roof this arvo, hopefully I can get it back to the sweet spot ...

Has anyone opened up their EeePC and connected a pigtail to its MiniPCIe wifi card for stumbling? Looking at some internal EeePC pics online it should be quite trivial to do (even if it does void your warranty). It's mentioned online that it uses u.fl connectors on the board, I assume a pigtail for this could be made quite easily with RP-SMA on the other end, does anyone have any thoughts about this?

Some pics online of the 701's 802.11G card (not my pics, just some i found):

Full URL: http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=2145

I have a small quantity of chimney antenna mounts. These are all 'as new' condition. Very quick and easy to setup. No drilling required. Best and easiest way of mounting an antenna on older style houses.

I have used one of these at a setup for the last two years supporting a 3m tall mast with a 15dB antenna. It has proved to be strong enough to survive through the storms in winter.

Each kit comes with:
antenna Bracket
wire strap
wire clamp
x2 I-bolts
x2 U-bolts
x6 nuts
x6 washers

$15 each (normally around $33 at Bunnings)

Pickup from Seaton or DryCreek (depending what time/day)
Delivery *may* be available for little to no extra charge depending on your location and amount purchased

So its that time of month again ;) Yes the intense radio/puter/geek meeting weeks =) Adelaide Hills Amatuer Radio Society -
VK5BAR are having their monthly meeting on Thursday the 15th, May. I joined up as a member at the AGM in January. I finally received my certificate for my foundation licence last week, so I'm all good to go =)

I have a 10watt radio on loan from Jacqui and I've manged to listen to the WIA broadcast on Sunday morning. Only just mind, there was so much noise it was barely readable. Thats probably a task for this weekend is to get an antenna sorted for the 80 meter band. That was the clearest of all the available repeaters. The 40 meter band seemed pretty empty. The 10 meter band had the faintest of signals and the only thing I could pick up on 80 meters was the WIA broadcast. I had a 40 meter half wave length dipole strung across the front yard, well maybe more like a inverted vee, still need to build a decent balun too. Maybe HAMs don't get out of bed before 10am like other sane people? Maybe they've all been up late working the radio until the wee hours? ;) I need to get a better space for the radio and get an antenna up more permanently.

Had a bit of fun today ...

but in my haste to solder the thing together neglected to slide the reflector I had prepared on ... I'll have to retro-fit one now - /-:
half inch copper pipe with LMR-400 down the centre, 2mm 925-silver quad element. cut solder was first placed into joints and then a micro-torch used for heating. Solder wet nicely.
Flood pinging the R100 on the roof ran fine on channels 1 then 11 ...

omni:~# ping -f -s 1400 192.168.1.7
PING 192.168.1.7 (192.168.1.7) 1400(1428) bytes of data.
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--- 192.168.1.7 ping statistics ---
4765 packets transmitted, 4764 received, 0% packet loss, time 35992ms