That's scary. And that's only a receiver antenna. So are we looking at an extra trailer behind our install trucks to carry an 8ft x 6ft yagi as well as 10 foot tv tower sections to get it up high enough and away from the house.
Steve Barnes RCWiFi Wireless Internet -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Hammett Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 12:54 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] TV Whitespaces PtP Backhaul For an idea of antenna size... look at a TV antenna. Same band, same size antenna for same gain. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com -------------------------------------------------- From: "Steve Barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 9:45 PM To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> Subject: Re: [WISPA] TV Whitespaces PtP Backhaul > Even in our area in eastern Indiana there is lots of 5.8 still available > for PTP. 700 PTP is not necessary in my opinion. > > I am concerned about 700 Mhz antenna sizes. Aren't sectors going to be > huge to get the 4 watt at the antenna? I am also concerned about the > CPE Panel size. Going from a 15" Panel to a 20" panel gives us a lot > more wind issues at the client. > > Don't get me wrong I am excited about the whitespace out come. I > appreciated the work of the Whitespace committee. > > We have tower owners who are concerned about the sizes of our antennas > now. Change from a 12 foot 900 Omni to a 16+ foot 700 will not get rave > reviews. > > Steve Barnes > RC-WiFi > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Mike Hammett > Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 8:35 PM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: [WISPA] TV Whitespaces PtP Backhaul > > I keep seeing desire to have a special category set aside for PtP > backhaul operations in the whitespaces. > > To those of you that understand the extreme rural environments... Is > this at all necessary? I don't see why it would be. > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions > http://www.ics-il.com > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > -------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > -------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
