[MLB-WIRELESS] 'Passive' repeater

[Simon Hall]

No, I was quoted $370 actually, and from a commercial perpective ( I was
doing the investigatio n for work) he was a wealth of information.

Simon

-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Ryan [mailto:ben at bssc.edu.au] 
Sent: Tuesday, 15 January 2002 5:58 PM
To: Simon Hall
Subject: Re[2]: [MLB-WIRELESS] 'Passive' repeater


> By the way the guys name is Karl Bahr not Baha as I previously 
> mentioned.  I just cannot read hand writing :) Simon
--snip--
>>I too have been looking at that there was a thread last week about 
>>that
> sort
>>of stuff.  Since then I have been talking to Karl Baha at Pacific 
>>Satellite and his recommendations were to use another AP as a 
>>repeater. I do believe that hooking two antenna may possibly work, but

>>don't quote me on it.

pacsat.. hehe, I spose you've seen the pricing??
24dBi Parabolic for 2.4Ghz.. rrp$470.00!
Lightning supressor - $260!
2W BiDi Amp - $2000

Not quite a community wireless supplier.


As for passive repeaters, the theory is all good using very short run
low loss cable, good connectors with low insertion loss and 24-28dBi
parabolics at all ends. Use different polarization on each link segment
to try and reduce multipath. Anything other than hi-gain parabolics,
depending on expected range, is prolly a waste of time. Would be
feasible for a pair of yagi's on say a 500m link but for decent haul
wouldn't be workable.


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