[SunRescue] Suburban Wireless?

Patrick Giagnocavo rescue at sunhelp.org
Mon Apr 23 22:02:31 CDT 2001


On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 08:54:27PM -0400, James Sharp wrote:
> 
> Use the yagi at the remote node sides, and then use a coaxial collinear
> antenna at the central point...they provide excellent omnidirectional
> gain.
> 
> Adding circular polarization would only make building decent omni-antennas
> difficult at best...and really wouldn't gain you anything.  CP really only
> gains you anything (IMHO) when you shoot through the ionosphere and have
> to deal with Faraday Rotation.
> 

I knew all this, but didn't see a reason to cloud the list with the obvious...

<grinning, ducking and running> 

:-)

./patrick



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