[MLB-WIRELESS] What does a Galaxy transmitter look like?

[Luke]

What the antenna actually looks like is a white (ish) cylinder about 120mm
diam, about 1.8 - 2M tall hanging off the side, or the top of the tower.
Thats if it is still there.  Galaxy used the same gear Austar did TX wise,
but the rx was all conifer.  Austar had hills reflectors with pac-mono
downconvertors, till hills made them.  Austar also bought all the galaxy
gear when they fell over, but (clinch teeth) had it all sent to metal
recyclers!  Early stuff was a passive dipole with an external downconvertor,
but later units had it built in.  You'd be lucky to find the early passives,
but you could hook up your ap or card directly to it as they had a N
connector on them.
----- Original Message -----
From: Goa Trance <goa at thirty.to>
To: <melbwireless at wireless.org.au>
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 10:00 PM
Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] What does a Galaxy transmitter look like?


> Andy,
>   I thought the antenna's were all pointing at Ceres Hill.  You know that
> huge tower with all the microwave transmitters up on it?
> I believe the whole of Geelong has LOS to that hill.. unless you live in
> a hole.  Maybe they had another transmitter up near the cement works?
>
> Gerard.
>
> On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 11:55:06PM +1100, Andy Freeman wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >             A fairly strange question (but I do have a reason to ask):
> >
> > What does a Galaxy transmitter look like?
> >
> > I live in Geelong and all the old Galaxy antennas in my local area point
> > roughly towards my house.  I have an idea of what they are pointing at
> > but I was hoping that someone knows what the old Galaxy transmitter
> > antennas look like and could describe them for me.
> >
> > If all the Galaxy antennas in the local area have line of sight (LOS) to
> > the transmitter, then by logical deduction I think they will all have
> > LOS to my new 2.4Ghz mast, which would allow thousands of possible nodes
> > to reach my access point.
> >
> > So I guess the questions are:
> >
> > 1. What does a Galaxy transmitter look like?
> > 2. Did they require LOS?
> > 3. Did they operate at 2.4Ghz?
> > 4. Why is their polarity reverse to commercial 2.4 antennas?
> >
> > Do we have an ex-galaxy tech on the list?
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> >             Andy.
> >
> >             wireless at kawasaki.kz
> >             http://kawasaki.kz/wireless
> >
>
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