Sunday, September 02 2007 @ 06:27 AM CDT
Contributed by: w7net
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I decided it was time to revisit my BiQuad WIFI antenna project so that I would have a way to test my hotspot. I went back to the online articles I had bookmarked and was embarrassed to find that I had the feed hooked up wrong to the BiQuad driven element. I won't go into the gory details but, suffice it to say that, it would never have worked the way I had it hooked up, gleep!
At any rate, I made the connection changes and pointed the antenna at my neighbor Art's house about 300yds. down river, just out of line of site, shaded by the edge of a plateau on the hillside between here and there. Then I paid a visit to Art with a laptop and gee-wizzed him with high speed INTERNET service. Art normally gets only 21.6kbps via the local rural ISP and seems about to take up stamp collecting instead of his internet activities.
I want to build another one if these BiQuads and hook them up pointing up and down river (that's at about 120 degrees as I am on a bend of the river), and turn on some more neighbors. But first, I need to find a recipe for a 2.4gHz power divider. No test equipment available here for building and testing one from scratch.
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BiQuad Success
Authored by: SAB on
Thursday, January 24 2008 @ 06:55 PM CST
Its about time ya finally did something right. ;o)
I know, no intellectuals hanging around the hills eh Joe?
I am glad your eyes are getting better, or did I
speak too soon?
I know, no intellectuals hanging around the hills eh Joe?
I am glad your eyes are getting better, or did I
speak too soon?