kb2mfs wrote: > No I haven't tried it yet. I did some modeling and with 150mw, 20dbi > antennas and the antenna at the friends house mounted up 21 feet (he > doesn't have a tower and isn't a Ham) and the antenna mounted at > least 60 feet up my tower it showed a good path. This was 7.22 Km > and despite the non line of sight. I was hoping for 2.4 Ghz > equipment since it is readily available running 200mw and 24 dbi > antennas. I had also planned to mount the units at the antenna > point. I was just second guessing the software models results. I am > pretty cheap so didn't want to spend the money on equipment if I > wasn't reasonably sure it would work. >
And is the reason why I chose to mention the WET11. They can be bought for $40 each or less on eBay. > I have never used anything near 2.4 Ghz but I would think it would be > rather difficult to line up the antennas. Other than a rough guess > what is the best way to do this? It looks like every milliwatt may > matter in this installation. > It's not really all that bad. Don't let the pointing issue scare you with 24 dB grids. Now if we needed to use 6 foot dishes, then yes pointing can be interesting. Kevin
