yeah, im talking about the short side being under 500 feet type relay. the ones where trenching or aerial cables are out
On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 12:11 PM, Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote: > When this has been discussed before, it only works if one path is really > short. You add the antenna gains and the free space loss of both paths. > If both legs have FSL on the order of 100 dB, you are not going to make it > up with antenna gain. > > The huge billboard style passive reflectors are a different matter. > > > *From:* That One Guy /sarcasm <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Wednesday, February 17, 2016 11:40 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [AFMUG] passive relay > > We have a bunch of old 2' radiowaves dishes laying around. > > Im curious what the real world loss would be if we used them on a midpoint > with the feedhorns patched together. > > Like for a business buried in trees that has an old tall barn with no > power but line of site to our PoP. this is a really common occurrence. All > we would need to do is get the feedhorns replaced with dual pol horns. > > This is on my list of things I would like to set up here shooting around > the corner of our building out of curiosity, but I never have time to play > with it > > -- > If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team > as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team. > -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team.
