On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 03:44:21PM -0700, Dave Marandino wrote:
> I decided on a sanity check of what is available via the BARWN node on Mt.
> San Bruno, so I got ahold of a laptop and took a little drive.
>
> The good news I learned is this: Boy is the view lovely!
Isn't it? :-)
> The rest of what i learned is not as good...
>
> I found what I'm pretty sure was the BARWN box, on the North/West-most tower
> site. It had a Burning Man sticker on the side, and looked like what I
> remembered from pics on the BARWN site.
> It had one blue cable coming out, which I think is the power-over-ethernet
> cable. It had 2 black cables coming out, one going to a ~2 foot dish
> antenna, and one going to a small, >1 foot omni antenna.
That be it.
> I had my laptop trolling for SSID's but found none, regardless of where I
> waved my laptop...I even stood on my tiptoes and stuck the antenna into the
> beam of the dish antenna. I found a spot about 40ft from the omni, and at
> about the same horizon with the omni, so I believe I was well in the omni's
> coverage zone. At no point did I ever see any SSID at all.
I am not sure why you are running into this. I connected to it
when I restarted the box on Saturday.
> Oddly, there is another dish directly between the omni and San Francisco,
> just inches from the omni. This ~4 foot dish is a lattice, with about 4-5
> inches space between the bars, which are all horizontal. I presume whoever
> set up the various dishes knew what they were doing when they stuck this
> non-BARWN dish between the BARWN omni and its prospective users in SF?
> Does 2.4GHz pass thru 4-5 inch gaps intact?
Likely there will be some non-circular pattern due to the rest of
the antennas up there. You should see the 10 footer that is almost
in line with our path to sixth and mission!
Tim
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