Assuming the metal box is a ped, not the trailer here....
If you cut a half wavelength slot in the metal box, cover it with non metallic
tape to keep the bugs out,
Then on the inside of the slot you put a quarter wave probe across the middle
of the slot, you now have a sector antenna.
Might be best to cut it horizontally and make it a V pol.
From: Ken Hohhof
Sent: Friday, June 12, 2020 8:38 AM
To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group'
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] RV Park Fiber
Makes you wonder if a wire and an alligator clip could turn the aluminum box
into an antenna.
Yeah, fields & waves was not my best course in college. And I have a fear of
heights. So of course I end up running a WISP. But turning a Faraday cage
into an antenna is probably not my best idea.
From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Mark Radabaugh
Sent: Friday, June 12, 2020 9:07 AM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com>
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] RV Park Fiber
I like your solution actually. Should work out well. Hardest part with
trailers is getting through the aluminum box. Putting AP’s close will help a
lot.
Mark
On Jun 12, 2020, at 9:54 AM, Adam Moffett <dmmoff...@gmail.com> wrote:
Wow this thread blew up while I was sleeping.
I'm proposing both a wireless and fiber solution. I'm sure they'll pick WiFi
because it'll be cheaper, but I wanted to put all the cards on the table.
As far as why I'm bothering to propose fiber:
1) If there's fiber to the power pedestal, and each ped (or every other ped)
has it's own little router with it's own SSID and key, then there's a security
benefit vs having everybody in the park be able to sniff traffic from each
other's devices.
2) We could track any illegal/bad/weird activity to a specific RV site (or at
least to the proximity of one).
3) The changing positions and occupancy of RV sites won't affect anybody's
WiFi because their WiFi will be right next to them no matter what. Neither
will the growth of trees hurt them.
4) No capacity issue in the park (and the feed TO the park can of course
always be upgraded).
5) Infinitely upgrade-able.
6) We have all the equipment and personnel and we want to use them. There's
an indefinite amount of work for them expanding and improving our own network,
but if they do it for the campground we can bill them out.
-Adam
On 6/11/2020 5:48 PM, Matt Hoppes wrote:
Why are you doing fiber?
We have a 300 unit RV park where everyone is required to stream over the
Internet, no satellite dishes are allowed.
It works absolutely fine and everything is back hauled wirelessly to the
sectors that cover several RV campers.
On Jun 11, 2020, at 5:03 PM, Adam Moffett mailto:dmmoff...@gmail.com
wrote:
Yeah I'm assuming WiFi would be everyone's first choice, and that's part
of why I'm thinking WiFi from the pedestal. I just thought it would be nice to
have the option to plug in a cable.
I did find a comms enclosure that bolts onto the back side of the RV
power ped. http://www.rvparksupplies.com/p/ACCESSBOXPHONECABLE/.
Waiting for them to send me more details, but I think that might give me
a place for the ONT, and incidentally there appear to be two keystone jacks in
it. My two reasons for suggesting this approach are that each RV gets their
own WiFi instead of sharing it with everybody around them, and if there was
ever a law enforcement issue we could track the usage to a particular site
rather than just "somewhere in the park".
On 6/11/2020 4:54 PM, Robert Andrews wrote:
As an "RVer" I will say that we are all set up for WiFi connections and
doing a hardwire would be something that we _never_ plan for. Don't even
carry and ethernet cable...
On 06/11/2020 01:30 PM, Adam Moffett wrote:
If you run fiber to RV sites, what do you put in at the site?
I'm imagining I'd end with a WiFi enabled ONT in a box, on a post
next to their power and water hookups. I'd want the campers to be able to plug
Ethernet in at the box if they have the wherewithal to do so. And if they
don't then they have their own private WiFi right outside their RV.
....of course I could get little Hoffman boxes and put this together,
but I'm betting someone must have made a product for this already.
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