Hawking WIFI Signal Booster

[Mike ODELL]

netgate.com is a great place for all things wifi.
Jim Thompson has as much experience designing and building wifi gear
as anyone I've ever known or known about.

the ubiquity wifi hardware that directly attaches to the antenna are great.
no coax loss - just Cat5e goes up to the antenna. 

I got my marine stick from netgate. two or three 5/8ths wave sections in a rugged
fiberglass radome with white gelcoat. you don't want too much gain because 
if the pattern flattens too much, rolling motion of the boat produces lighthouse
flashing but in the vertical plane. and the radios come at higher power, too,
so the range can be quite surprising. 

     - mo


Sent from my iPad so please excuse the jammy fingers.

On Jun 16, 2013, at 10:29 AM, "William Fenn" <bfenn at cox.net> wrote:

> Alex,
>  
> Check this URL.  They have excellent antennas at very good prices.  I used them as a supplier of antennas needed to microwave news stories back to the station before I retired and a lot of the HSMM-MESH guys get their antennas from here.
>  
> http://www.l-com.com/wireless-antenna-24-ghz-wifi-antennas
>  
> When it comes to a boat I would use an omni antenna.  L-com has a few of these with reasonable gain.
>  
> Bill
> N4TS
>  
> Subject: Re: FW: Hawking WIFI Signal Booster
>  
> Anyone built one of these?
> 
> http://www.trevormarshall.com/biquad.htm
> 
> Ha ha I just bought a boat and I'm thinking of doing some war sailing.  I'm already figuring out how to mount antennas...
> 
> On 6/15/2013 8:41 AM, William Fenn wrote:
> It Should work if you keep your transmission line short.  Coax loss at 2.4 Ghz can be pretty high and you could end up radiating far less power than the WiFi put out.  The HSMM folks mount the WiFi xcvr at the antenna to overcome this.
>  
> You can find the WindSurfer Antenna at this Web Site;
>  
> http://www.freeantennas.com/
>  
> I used it in an HSMM presentation and it works.
>  
> Bill
> N4TS
>  
>  
> On 6/14/2013 9:17 PM, Alex Fraser wrote:
>> I wonder if I can feed a regular dipole with the amp via a cable?
>  
> Richard O’neil Reply Friday, June 14, 2013 9:44 PM
> 
>   Me too. I eagerly await your results as I could use a better signal in the far end of the house. 
> 
> Richard
> 
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