He meant IpaQ

Gino A. Villarini
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Aeronet Wireless Broadband Corp.
787.273.4143
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf 
Of Josh Luthman
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 2:06 PM
To: WISPA General List
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Site Survey Method


Ipad from 12 years ago?  In 2000?  Didn't Apple just come out with the iPod at 
this time?

Josh Luthman
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Direct: 937-552-2343
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Troy, OH 45373
On May 17, 2012 2:03 PM, "Rick Kunze" 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
At 11:05 AM 5/16/2012, you wrote:
>Trying to figure out a good way to do site surveys and monitor
>signal strength while on the customer's roof

To this day, I'm still using the same iPad PDA I used 12 years ago
when I bought it.  I've not seen anything come along that would replace it.

It's a PDA with the "accessory pack" thing attached, so that I can
run an Orinoco PCMCIA card in it.  Someone back then whipped up
driver for WinCE so that the Orinico card worked.  (Lonnie)  With
that and a hand held small tubular yagi, it works like a charm.  It
reads 802.11b only of course.  Shows other AP's, signal strength,
noise floor, etc.  I use a 15db yagi and pigtail to the
Orinoco.  Climb onto the roof, sweep for signal, read the level, and
you can easily calculate margin for various alternative antennas.

What I'd really like to find is a hand held device like that with an
Etnernet port.  It seems nobody puts Ethernet ports in anything
smaller than a laptop and even that's getting replaced more and more
with wireless.

Rk



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