On Aug 13, 10:27*am, John Ferrell wrote:
I would like to see the picture. If no one else is interested you can
email the picture. My email is in the clear.

John Ferrell W8CCW

OK, I sent two pictures in a private email to your address on
qrz.com. For some reason, I only see part of your email address
here. (My email provider discontinued Newsgroups this year and I'm
still getting the hang of Google Groups. Maybe I should try Yahoo
Groups or pay for a real NG server.)

"Sal"

On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 22:27:13 -0700 (PDT), "Sal M. Onella"
wrote:

or pay for a real NG server.

Try:
http://www.forteinc.com/apn/index.php

for $3 a month you get 12 Gigabytes download capacity.

At the rate I draw from that capacity (in the Kilobytes) I should have
to pay a penny a year instead - but they don't offer that kind of
plan.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC

I got them!
I think it will be a while but I am slowly accumulating stuff for the
project. I am especially interested in how mechanical problems are
handled.

I use a few concrete blocks on my antenna projects too!

Thanks for the info,

On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 22:27:13 -0700 (PDT), "Sal M. Onella"
wrote:

On Aug 13, 10:27*am, John Ferrell wrote:
I would like to see the picture. If no one else is interested you can
email the picture. My email is in the clear.

John Ferrell W8CCW

OK, I sent two pictures in a private email to your address on
qrz.com. For some reason, I only see part of your email address
here. (My email provider discontinued Newsgroups this year and I'm
still getting the hang of Google Groups. Maybe I should try Yahoo
Groups or pay for a real NG server.)

"Sal"
John Ferrell W8CCW

On Aug 15, 11:48*am, John Ferrell wrote:
I got them!
I think it will be a while but I am slowly accumulating stuff for the
project. I am especially interested in how mechanical problems are
handled.

I use a few concrete blocks on my antenna projects too!

Thanks for the info,

John Ferrell W8CCW

You're welcome. The OP said his dish was 2.5m; how big is yours? Or
do you have one yet?

I had a 2m solid dish for a few years (unused) and finally gave it
away. That thing was heavy. I never had the whole mount for it --
just a tripod frame off the back of the dish -- so I can't offer any
direct suggestions. One idea, if you have a communications company
nearby, like the area cable-tv provider, maybe a friendly tech will
let you into their yard, where you can examine how their dishes
mount. Just a thought.

My other dish, a ten-foot mesh unit with which I watched premium
programs for fifteen years, is now in EME service a few miles from
here. Are you thinking EME?

"Sal"

----snip2save-----------
Recieving them is one thing but transmitting a good signal
back to them is another, so I am finding out the hard way :-(


chuck a USB WiFi Dongle at the focal point and see how
far/many WiFi routers you can hit?

Regards,
JS





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On 6/3/2011 8:04 AM, moronsbegone wrote:
----snip2save-----------
Recieving them is one thing but transmitting a good signal
back to them is another, so I am finding out the hard way :-(


chuck a USB WiFi Dongle at the focal point and see how
far/many WiFi routers you can hit?

Regards,
JS



I used to have a 1 watt USB dongle, came from china ...

I am thinking you might still be able to locate one on ebay?

Anyway, let me know what you find. I am going to be setting up a long
range link in the near future, for a friend.

Regards,
JS

On Fri, 03 Jun 2011 10:04:13 -0500, moronsbegone
wrote:

----snip2save-----------
Recieving them is one thing but transmitting a good signal
back to them is another, so I am finding out the hard way :-(

Could the relationship between time and distance problem be impacting
performance? Every other influencing parameter appears to be a
constant. Lengthening the timeout on your end might provide a
solution.

John Smith wrote in
:

On 6/3/2011 8:04 AM, moronsbegone wrote:
----snip2save-----------
Recieving them is one thing but transmitting a good signal
back to them is another, so I am finding out the hard way
:-(


chuck a USB WiFi Dongle at the focal point and see how
far/many WiFi routers you can hit?

Regards,
JS



I used to have a 1 watt USB dongle, came from china ...

I am thinking you might still be able to locate one on
ebay?

Anyway, let me know what you find. I am going to be
setting up a long range link in the near future, for a
friend.

Regards,
JS



I appreciate the reply, it seems my Alfa ½ watt [bs-rating=
1/10 watt] is making the grade with 4 access points reliably
so it's just the little boy ego in me that seems spoiled when
110 access points are showing up and only a handful can hear
me. Then again it's real crowded here and channel bleeding or
some other 'Over crowded' phenomenon is dissing my male ego. I
sort of feel like a dumb truck driver running 1500 watts to
talk to the driver behind me9 In respect to the industry and
moral conscience I do not want to splatter my neighbors with a
gazillion watts and make their 5 bar connections slow because
of me and rf splatter. You guys know so much more then I it
isn't funny, don't want to sound like a moron but this "Dish"
theory is a hidden treasure right under everyone's nose and it
amazes me that just putting a retired Dish Network disk 13"
behind the Alfa USB WiFi with the 3 DB gain Vertical ground
antenna on it gives me a 5 bar signal from what used to be a
1. The reason I am picking on this one AP is that I have the
owners blessing to use it, so why not focus on the legal one.
Sure I am willing to hack a stranger's one if I have to, but
here is a case where I don't, so I won't. But up till now his
signal was week, now it's good, but experimenting with the
other unsecured AP's there are some that are 3 bars and can
not get a handshake for more then 10 seconds at 1 MBPS
Then PWAffffffft!!! I am bumped off then on then off then on…
Weird I say.
But it has all the symptoms of an Elephant base station, all
ears no mouth, and I am Irish I don't take custom to things
that way, generally the other way around LoL.
But I don't want to be a CB Rambo moron and ruin it for
everyone else; I am on line at a steady 54 MBPS right now so
why bother. Just Ego I guess or interest in the science maybe.
By the way the Dish is Indoors!!! I used to be a HAM, tech
license but let it laps years ago. Can't stand the FCC's
attitude.

Registered User wrote in
:

On Fri, 03 Jun 2011 10:04:13 -0500, moronsbegone
wrote:

----snip2save-----------
Recieving them is one thing but transmitting a good signal
back to them is another, so I am finding out the hard way
:-(

Could the relationship between time and distance problem be
impacting performance? Every other influencing parameter
appears to be a constant. Lengthening the timeout on your
end might provide a solution.

I appreciate the reply, it seems my Alfa ½ watt [bs-rating=
1/10 watt] is making the grade with 4 access points reliably
so it's just the little boy ego in me that seems spoiled when
110 access points are showing up and only a handful can hear
me. Then again it's real crowded here and channel bleeding or
some other 'Over crowded' phenomenon is dissing my male ego. I
sort of feel like a dumb truck driver running 1500 watts to
talk to the driver behind me! In respect to the industry and
moral conscience I do not want to splatter my neighbors with a
gazillion watts and make their 5 bar connections slow because
of me and rf or binary packet splatter/collisions. You guys
know so much more then I it isn't funny, don't want to sound
like a moron but this "Dish" theory is a hidden treasure right
under everyone's nose and it amazes me that just putting a
retired Dish Network disk 13" behind the Alfa USB WiFi with
the 3 DB gain Vertical ground antenna on it gives me a 5 bar
signal from what used to be a 1. The reason I am picking on
this one AP is that I have the owners blessing to use it, so
why not focus on the legal one. Sure I am willing to hack a
stranger's one if I have to, but here is a case where I don't,
so I won't. But up till now his signal was week, now it's
good, but experimenting with the other unsecured AP's there
are some that are 3 bars and can not get a handshake for more
then 10 seconds at 1 MBPS
Then PWAffffffft!!! I am bumped off then on then off then on…
Weird I say.
But it has all the symptoms of an Elephant base station, all
ears no mouth, and I am Irish I don't take custom to things
that way, generally the other way around LoL.
But I don't want to be a CB Rambo moron and ruin it for
everyone else; I am on line at a steady 54 MBPS right now so
why bother. Just Ego I guess or interest in the science maybe.
By the way the Dish is Indoors!!! I used to be a HAM, tech
license but let it laps years ago. I can't stand the FCC's
attitude. Somewhere in the registry setting I can set the
"TimeToLive" string to 128 ms is that what you mean?
I know IP stuff [it's my dreaded job] but the microwave stuff
you guys smoke me.