Are you talking about our good buddy Simon Ditner? A metal Vegetable
Steamer ????? And Andrew Kholsmith -- Did you REALLY REALLY REALLY
reach 8Km? I just want to hear you say, "Yes I did" :).
I can only begin to imagine the KISS principle! If with simple technologies
we can achieve 8km... I see no barriers reaching 800 km!
Having some background on soldering, electronics and electrical - I think I
can take one of my small offset dish ($15 bux garage sale), have a laser
pointer mounted on the LNB and the small transmitting antenna from the
router on the LNB -- will technically put it on the focal point & assist in
pointing to the right direction. What are your thoughts?
Oh boy Dave! You got this hamster running in my head now.
Cheers!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Donovan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 3:37 PM
Subject: Re: [on-asterisk] VoIP & Wireless - Antenna recommendation
One of the funniest improvised antenna stories I've heard was Simon
using a USB WIFI adapter placed at the focal point of a metal
vegetable steamer, or collander or something of that sort. Apparently
it's cheap and surprisingly effective. The upshot is that you don't
have to know anything about connectors or do any soldering.
Dave
On 8/3/06, Andrew Kohlsmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thursday 03 August 2006 14:25, John Van Ostrand wrote:
> If you are looking to build Richard Weait and some of his friends had
> an
> interesting experience recently using a small satellite dish as a
> reflector for a wireless antenna.
Yep. I've hit >8km links without too much trouble with an offset dish
and
some time. Ok a lot of time... aiming's a bugger. :-)
If you're looking for antennas in the Kitchener/Waterloo area, I really
like
SuperPass... www.superpass.com. The place looks a little ghetto but
I've
never had a bad antenna from them and the prices aren't too bad, either.
-A.
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