On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 10:09:32PM -0400, Skip Gundlach wrote: > Hi, Ben, yours below for reference, and list, > > The furthest I've made it *successfully* under way is 7 miles. I > think I got more like 14 at Little Harbour, to Little Whale, full > time, good connectivity. I've made the connection under way at 12 > miles, but didn't have a big enough mouth to talk back...
Those are pretty impressive numbers! At 14 miles, you'd need a bit more height, of course; in fact, given a masthead height of 60', the AP would need to be at least 20' high - and higher with downtilt. > On top of the mast minimizes interference from my other boat stuff; at > that, there's a slight difference between port and starboard, fore and > aft, performance (in effective communication between a point in those > directions) on my unit, due to the small amounts of stuff up there > with it. An antenna mounted with anything less than a clear line of > sight, whether fiberglass or other (particularly, of course, metal) > material, will have a degraded signal. Thus, for most boats, mast-top > will be the best, even if not needed for distance... Excellent point, of course. > Skip, enjoying (current scan) 14 open sites, using the one which is > much stronger than needed for Vonage, in Lucaya, waiting for a weather > window to cross to Saint Simons Island, GA As it happens, that's where I'm sitting right now. If you make it here before we take off (probably Tuesday, assuming the weather cooperates), I'd be happy to stand you a beer! -- * Ben Okopnik * Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette * http://LinuxGazette.NET * _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
