SeattleWireless Node Fundraiser

[Chuck Harrison]

Bill Vodall WA7NWP wrote:
> 
> Ok.  If nobody else is going to ask I'll do it.    The noise floor on
> the 900 MHz and 2.4 Ghz bands, probably less so at 5 Ghz, at 150' above
> metro Seattle is bound to be incredible.   I'm sure Matt and Casey
> et.al. have ideas on how to deal with this -- an antenna pattern with
> highly reduced downtilt so it has a gain to Kirkland but a loss locally?
> 

I haven't done any microwave link engineering recently, but since
we're talking fixed point-to-point links here, I would think
that high gain at the individual node antennas will help a lot.
It would be a great application for phased array on the tower,
but I don't see the $2500 budget reaching there.

Peace,
  Chuck