Bob Dengler wrote:
>...and if internet isn't available at the site, how about using 802.11b or
>a to bring it in? I've yet with play with that stuff, but it sounds to me
>like a pair of gain antennas at each end could get you a couple of miles to
>where you would have wired internet access. Anyone try this?
>
>Bob NO6B
>
>
A gang of us attempted about a 9 mile shot between two of the existing
high-mountain repeater sites here in Colorado last summer with similar
802.11b gear as Kevin mentioned he's using. Just for fun.
We weren't successful for silly reasons (the test site on one mountain
isn't really line-of-sight to the other...) There's a big-assed rock in
the way which we kinda all knew, but it was made a lot more obvious to
the two guys at ground-level on that end of the link when they got
there. They made a valiant attempt to get higher, though. ;-)
But it was a nice day to be out in the mountains with a 10' mast
strapped to the back of the Jeep and a gusty wind trying to pull at the
BBQ dish and yank on all the bungee cords holding the test jury-rig!
We'll probably try again sometime when the WX is good again. Next time,
someone will have to go up one of the towers - or we'll have to dynamite
about half the mountain out of the way. ;-)
Meanwhile, down here in town, a number of folks have 4-5 mile
non-quite-line-of-sight stuff working, just fine. 1-2 Mb/s. And I've
talked to plenty of IRLP node owners that have done similar things to
get IP to their sites from their houses/etc. One guy went nuts and
after he found out it worked, and he feeds his whole small town in
Canada as a "community ISP provider" from his house now. He had access
to all the major towers in town in his small town, and just kept
expanding the network... meanwhile the community now pays to support his
IRLP habit.
Or something like that. ;-)
And one of our repeater sites is serviced by a local wireless ISP on 5.8
GHz non-licensed Trango Wireless gear. Works great. Pretty funny to
look at the dish antenna -- their site is about 700' lower than the
repeater site and the dishes have about 10-15 degress of uptilt
anyway... they're surplus DSS dishes, so it really looks like the dish
is pointed at the ground. Will work great until the tower sheds some
ice this winter... then we'll see if we're up there hanging a new one
because the other one's in pieces at the bottom of the tower... heh.
Nate WY0X
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