Exactly. Use an online freespace path loss calculator.
In real life, I've yet to encounter a scenario where the math actually
worked.
Suppose the barn is 5 miles from the tower, and 100 yards from the
customer's office.
Using the calculator at https://www.pasternack.com/t-calculator-fspl.aspx:
100 yards (customer to barn) = -87db FSPL
5 miles (tower to barn) = -126db FSPL
sector antenna gain (tower) = +16dbi
2' dish gain (barn1) = +28dbi
2' dish gain (barn2) = +28dbi
2' dish gain (customer office) +28dbi
tx power from tower = +26dbm
That adds up to an RSSI of -87dbm assuming everything else is perfect.
So you've got a lot invested to get a signal they won't be happy with.
If it were 900mhz
100 yards = -71 db
5 miles = -110 db
Let's say yagi antennas x 4 at +15dbi each for a total of +60
Tx power at +21 (to be legal).
That adds up to -100dbm. Doesn't work at all.
So really, you need one path to be short and the other to be /extremely/
short.
On 2/17/2016 1:11 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
When this has been discussed before, it only works if one path is
really short. You add the antenna gains and the free space loss of
both paths. If both legs have FSL on the order of 100 dB, you are not
going to make it up with antenna gain.
The huge billboard style passive reflectors are a different matter.
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We have a bunch of old 2' radiowaves dishes laying around.
Im curious what the real world loss would be if we used them on a
midpoint with the feedhorns patched together.
Like for a business buried in trees that has an old tall barn with no
power but line of site to our PoP. this is a really common occurrence.
All we would need to do is get the feedhorns replaced with dual pol horns.
This is on my list of things I would like to set up here shooting
around the corner of our building out of curiosity, but I never have
time to play with it
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