[MLB-WIRELESS] Satellite dish..

[Alexander Cohen]

Hmm on the subject of very big dishes has anyone tried making very large
'virtual' dishes by setting up a row of smaller dishes all hooked up to the
same AP?

    --- Alex

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matt Pearce" <mattpearce at optusnet.com.au>
To: "'melbwireless'" <melbwireless at wireless.org.au>
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 3:36 PM
Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] Satellite dish..


> *smirks* I think you might go over the EIRP a little there, although more
> testing would be required to double check this ;-)
>
> Although on the plus side, you are going to have one extremely narrow beam
> width on that so the chance of anyone tapping in and finding your link are
> going to be fairly small, however a 3.8km antenna is not going to be an
easy
> thing to hide on the side of your house !!
>
> Matt.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Alexander Cohen" <shogun at shafted.com.au>
> To: "Jamie Lovick" <jalovick at doof.org>; "'melbwireless'"
> <melbwireless at wireless.org.au>
> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 3:29 PM
> Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] Satellite dish..
>
>
> > Ah cool, didn't know that usual calculator page existed.
> >
> > *notes that he needs a 3.8km antenna to get a 100dBi gain, and that a
10km
> > antenna doesn't help much more*
> >
> >     --- Alex
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Jamie Lovick" <jalovick at doof.org>
> > To: "'melbwireless'" <melbwireless at wireless.org.au>
> > Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 3:42 PM
> > Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] Satellite dish..
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Alexander Cohen wrote: >
> > > >
> > > > Hmm on that topic any idea what sorta dBi do you think I could get
> > > > out of these with a suitable LNB?
> > > >
> > > > http://shogun.shafted.com.au/wireless/three/
> > >
> > > The two solid relectors, assuming they are around 3 Meters, is about
38
> > > dBi at 2.4 GHz. The smaller ~1.8 Meter dish would be about 33.5.
> > >
> > > The dishes could all be used for C-Band Satellite, but probably only
the
> > > solid one's for Ku-band Satellite.
> > >
> > > It's fairly basic, but there is a gain calculator at:
> > >
> > > http://www.swisswireless.org/wlan_calc_en.html
> > >
> > > Regards
> > >
> > > Jamie
> > >
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