Photos, please!!!! I'm looking at getting something put into my truck. Looking at using ~20' of galvanized pipe with some LMR. That way I can plug in either the Orinoco ( for true dB readings *cough, cough*) or plug in the sB for the RSSI/LinkQ numbers that I'm familiar with.
By the way, Dunno if you remember me, but I'm the guy that was chatting with you, Brad Belton and Marlon at Wispcon when you were telling us about your website. TIM I'm using the following: In the bed of my pickup, I mounted the tilt base for a Rohn 25G just behind the cab. On that I put the top 25G section that comes together at the top for a mast. In the mast pipe I slid a 10'er of 1.25 mast material (thinwall pipe) with a 24dBi grid on it, and an APPO. In the truck is my laptop with DeLorme Topo software and a Garmin GPS on the dash plugged into the laptop. On the topo map is a mark where my tower is. I go out to the customer's location and (using GPS) I mark a spot on the map then draw a line back to my tower. This gives compass heading. I lower the tailgate of my truck, extend the 10'er and clamp it down, then tilt the whole thing up watching for over head power lines. (Important safety tip!) Then using Simplemonitor I can read signal strength. (I have the mac of my truck's APPO listed on all APs everywhere for obvious reasons. This method makes for a few extra steps but the upside is that it generates a map of all your customers. Works like a charm. The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe smartBridges <yournickname> To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe smartBridges) Archives: http://archives.part-15.org
