That is a good point, the best plan may just be to put an antenna on a pole and run the lead inside.
I don't know anything about the equipment in that area. -wes On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 12:01 AM, Chuck Hast <wch...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well, if you have 1-2 bars a directional antenna will give you some gain, > If you can add 5 db to that you should be pretty good. Wonder what they > are using out there? I have an app that shows me which band the radio > is working, I will have to look and see what it is. If you look at > directional > cellular antennas there are quite a few. As to the device, I have been > looking > at several devices all of them are some sort of cell modem, I am trying to > find one that uses PoE and is in a weather proof case. Having lived in > FL I know what salt air is all about. In Tampa anything outside had a life > of about 2 years if it was any of the common metals. I.e. Aluminium, most > steel, and iron. About the only thing that had a reasonable life was SS. > > Back on the antenna thing, yes, if you can add some elevation to it even > better. Vegetation is evil. the NW is no better than tropical rain forest > and > in some cases worse, the needles on some of the conifers are 1/2 and 1/4 > wave length at some of the common used frequencies and those needles > really suck up the RF. I had a similar situation in S. New Jersey, those > needles were near enough to 800Mhz wavelength to cause major attenuation. > 1/4 wave is about 9.8cm, which is about the same length as those pine > needles > in S. New Jersey woods. > > Gotta get to bed, am in San Diego tonight gotta go to LA (yetch) tomorrow. > Flew in to LAX from PDX this morning drove down to SAN. Did a job now > back to LA for another one. Then home, the only thing I am going to miss > from here is the sun... > > > > On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 11:33 PM, wes <p...@the-wes.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > Wes, the neighbor that has the connectivity issues, do they have AT&T > > > coverage on their property? If so I would certainly look into that > > > offering. > > > > > > > > > > > I usually got 1-2 bars of signal strength on my AT&T phone. I didn't try > > other carriers. I suspect it would be much higher with just a little > > elevation, but he's right on the coast so weather protection is extra > > important. Probably more important than the device used - it could just > be > > a phone with tethering enabled. But the salt gets into everything and > > wrecks and ruins so fast. > > > > I wish he was a neighbor, sadly he's a 6 hour drive away (Gold Beach), > so I > > have to be extra careful about solutions I set up out there. > > > > -wes > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > > > > -- > > Chuck Hast -- KP4DJT -- > Glass, five thousand years of history and getting better. > The only container material that the USDA gives blanket approval on. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug