Dennis-used to do it on VHF a lot, the Garden State parkway in NJ has maintenance sites about a mile off the road-in order to cover them we used back-to-back yagis or corner reflectors-HOWEVER what made them work was the harness between the two-in those days done by Phelps-Dodge-VERY critical dimensions.
Have never tried Wi-Fi, there are a lot of cheap active Wi-Fi repeaters available which work well if you have AC, and IF you have enough signal to feed them at the location you pick. Otherwise a second access point at your house with an outdoor yagi attached to it might do the trick-not a second Wi-Fi router but an access point only with an external antenna-they are also easy to come by. Andy From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of numberone5call Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2009 4:08 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Passive fer wifi Curious; Has anyone tried a passive repeater to extend the distance of internet service. I have a daughter living in a house about 150 yards away. She has little to no service from my n-router. There is nothing to block the signal between us. What about connecting two yagis back to back and putting them on a pole halfway between us. Never tried it on vhf or uhf. Just wondering if anyone has tried it fer a wifi extension. Dennis no5c
