Yeah, that sounds like a good approach. Even on a commercial tower, if you mount it near another antenna, the tower owner probably won’t even notice you snuck another antenna up there without paying more rent.
From: Jeremy Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2015 11:12 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Serving customers next door to tower On the ones that I cannot get good signal I use a bare loco on both sides, one pointed up and one pointed down, on a 5MHz channel. It will usually still get them 15Mbps, without sacrificing too much spectrum at the tower. On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 10:10 AM, Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote: Do you have a cabinet or shelter at the bottom of the tower? I have been considering just putting an omni down there, since it rarely works well shooting up at the APs. At grain legs, I have sometimes done a low powered PTP link with something like NS5 Locos just for a scale house, maintenance shop, or house right at the leg. Then you can tilt it down. I think it’s more than just hearing all the APs, there seem to be problems being outside the main lobe of the antenna, plus reflections off tower steel, even once you get the signal level to an acceptable point, SNR and modulation can be disappointing. If you’re convinced the only problem is too strong a signal, you could always use an external antenna and an inline coax attenuator. From: Josh Luthman Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2015 11:02 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [AFMUG] Serving customers next door to tower Does anyone have any tips for this? My only thought process was to do an integrated radio *inside* the office building to keep from hearing every AP on the tower. We've had some issues with nearby customers using a Force110/Beam hearing way too much of the tower so we moved to Integrated/Nano to solve their problems. I have a business that needs service and it's literally the same address as the tower (150 feet up). It's 60 feet away to the middle of the office but the ends are about 120 feet away. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373
