Re: [BAWUG] Passive repeater (Was: Cringely essay and my response)

[Alf Watt]

A very good example of this that you can see anytime is on top of the 
south tower of the Golden Gate bridge. There are a pair of dish 
antennas back to back which relay from the south pier of the bridge to 
the antenna array on the hill behind the north tower. This is clearly 
simpler than an active repeater, even with power readily available.

As for Cringely's essay, he clearly hasn't come to terms with the end 
of the age of free. Besides, the world hardly needs another 
communications billing system.

Best,
Alf
On 18 Jan 2004, at 12:00p, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Subject: Re: [BAWUG] Passive repeater (Was: Cringely essay and my 
response)
From: "Brian  Riley (maillist)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: BAWUG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

This was used long ago to get VHF TV into deep valleys near larger 
metro
areas with back to back yagis.

On 1/10/04 8:08 AM, "Brian Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On Jan 10, 2004, at 4:15 AM, Glenn Fleishman wrote:

I'm still waiting for him to explain his magic passive repeater, as 
are
we all.
I have used back-to-back dish antennas with no amplification to get
signal over a hill.  This has long been used in microwave circles.
Brian Lloyd 
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