<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/7/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jason Hecker</b> <<a href="mailto:jhecker@wireless.org.au">jhecker@wireless.org.au</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
- Use Google maps to get the best idea of where each other should be<br>pointing.<br><br>- Put the directional up at one end and an omni at the other.<br><br>- Swivel the directional until you get the best signal from the omni and
<br>fix the position of the directional.<br><br>- Replace the omni with the other directional and swivel until you get<br>the best signal.<br><br>- Leech each others hard-drives.</blockquote><div><br>This will work when the two points are well within easy range of each other, but issues with this approach will manifest when pushing the limits of the "weakest"* piece of equipment. Where two directionals may be able to get a decent link, one directional and an omni may not be able to establish anything. You may be hampered by mismatched antenna polarity for a start. Then there are the issues of different radiation patterns giving radically different reflections, having to take the floor of the EIRP of the different equipment, and other (probably subtle and infuriating) differences in propagation.
<br><br>L8r,<br>F00 VK3HAX<br><br></div>* Using the term "weakest" very loosely.<br></div><br>