If you have a ladder rack/utility bed on the truck, you can do what we did.
We took one of those Trango rounded steel plates and mounted it to the side of the ladder rack. We then put a 5ft+ pipe through that, let it rest on the bed and we have a mobile pipe mount! We have a cat5 cable ran from the bed to the cab, with an inverter plugged right into the battery (just one, gas truck). We mounted 18v, 48v POEs to the floor and then the Motorola one into a surge strip (love these now, thanks 3db). If anyone cares, I'll take a picture. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." --- Albert Einstein On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Kevin Neal <ke...@safelink.net> wrote: > We usually just test a few miles from a tower. A laptop, canopy, > extension cord, spare parts and tools. It's not soo much fun in > winter weather, but we make sure that signals are within 3-5 db of > each other. We know what we should be getting from our test location, > we also run a 30 second bandwidth test as well. > > -Kevin > > > On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Kristian Hoffmann <kh...@fire2wire.com> > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > We tend to get radios back from techs with notes that say something like > > "bad radio" or "low signal." Things that aren't obviously broken tend > > to sit around and collect dust. > > > > Does anyone have a efficient way to test 802.11a/b/g radios? Most of > > our equipment is MikroTik, so my plan was to do a conductive test > > between a known good radio and the radio in question with 80 dB or so of > > attenuator stacked between them, check the rx signal on both ends, and > > run a bw test for a set amount of time. Is there anything else that I > > should take into consideration, or perhaps a completely different > > approach? > > > > I was looking at these attenuators... > > > > http://www.minicircuits.com/pdfs/UNAT-30+.pdf > > > > I don't think precision is really an issue as long as they're consistent > > from one test to another. > > > > Thanks, > > > > -- > > Kristian Hoffmann > > System Administrator > > kh...@fire2wire.com > > http://www.fire2wire.com > > > > Office - 209-543-1800 | Fax - 209-545-1469 | Toll Free - 800-905-FIRE > > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > > http://signup.wispa.org/ > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
