anyone care to elaborate on these purported melbwireless bulkbuys?<br><br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/23/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael Borthwick</b> <<a href="mailto:holden@netspace.net.au">holden@netspace.net.au</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><br>On 23/05/2007, at 1:19 PM, Rohan Malhotra wrote:<br><br>> I thought i might ask for recommendations on an omni
2.4ghz antenna<br>> on my roof. im presuming stock antennas (the stock antenna on a<br>> wrtrouter? )wont really cut it if i want to propogate this signal<br>> across my street. I was thinking something in the 9-15dB range for
<br>> a dipole 360 omni should do the trick?<br>If you mean literally "across the street" then a stock rubber duck<br>antenna (2.2dBi gain) will be fine. A 9dBi will double your range.<br>Anything over 9dBi gets very expensive. Over 300 Superpass omni's
<br>were bought in by Melbourne Wireless people years ago - there are<br>bound to be some kicking around somewhere - along with 4Km's of<br>LMR400 from Jules alone.<br>><br>> i may as well collect all the things I need before i give it
<br>> another go, all i gotta get now is this omni and a weatherproof<br>> box. weatherproof far as i know should b easily obtained from local<br>> hardware and i'm going to try to source a fat secondhand omni
<br>> antenna from somewhere.<br>><br>> i might add that in a few weeks time when im on my school holidays<br>> id like to give this another go, right now im trying to supress<br>> the thought of massive lan interconnectivity (and ensuing joy) so
<br>> that i can get through my studies haha!<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Melbwireless mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:Melbwireless@wireless.org.au">Melbwireless@wireless.org.au
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