[MLB-WIRELESS] How important is line of sight?

Tony Langdon, VK3JED vk3jed at optushome.com.au
Sat Jun 22 00:10:36 EST 2002


At 11:31 PM 21/06/2002 +1000, Mathew Burns wrote:

>Without line of sight am I screwed?
>
>I have been considering joining two lans to share net access.  It's only
>about 400 meters as the crow flies but standing on my roof I can't make
>out the other (it's all so different up there).  More than likely
>there's a clump of trees in way though.  I'll stick some lights up soon
>to confirm this.  Will using a high gain antenna (galaxy dish, etc,
>whatever's on the cheap) punch through the trees for the short distance?

If it's trees, there's a good chance you can get a workable link.  Might be 
dodgy in the wet, but only one way to find out. :)

73 de Tony, VK3JED
http://vk3jed.vk.irlp.net


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