Thanks, Pascal. I'm hoping I'll have that kind of space at my disposal. I haven't seen the erected tower yet, so I've not exactly certain what I'm getting into. I do know that it was a "discarded" flagpole from a local car dealership. It stands at 70' tall.
Eventually, I'll be adding more antennas up there, which brings me to my next question(s): -How far apart should 14db 90* sectored antennas be? -To what extent does this vary with the quality of the antenna chosen? (beam pattern, etc). Do you always get what you pay for? (my primary tower has 14dB sectored Maxrad antennas (~$140) and they work well as far as I can tell. Then there's folks like Decibel Products who sell antennas 4x as expensive. Are they that much better? How does one determine antenna quality?) By the way... anyone using that Maxrad 3-in-1 omni? It's fairly expensive ($1,000+). Worth it? From the description of this tower, I might need something like this. (by the way, John McReynolds --regarding your "Repeater question" post... my first repeater tower was nothing more than 2 airPoints in a NEMA box with a 13dB AAI panel aimed at the tower, and a 13dB AAI panel aimed HORIZ at the valley in question. Both airPoints were plugged into a switch at the guy's house and he gets free broadband just for having a ham radio tower in the right place and for being a nice guy. The first month, the aPclient kept freezing up for some reason. I think it was electrical. Replaced it and it's been whistling dixie for the past 8 months, no resets. There are only 4 customers on it + the ham radio guy. Paid for itself in ~4 months). Tim Foster www.AledoBroadBand.com Aledo's only high-speed ISP 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
