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Wednesday, September 08 2010 @ 05:01 PM CDT

Some Site Updates

Sunday, March 26 2006 @ 05:03 PM CST
Contributed by: w7net
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Added local WX for Syringa, Idaho. I know the address is Kooskia but, USPS does not have a ZIP for Syringa. The QTH is less than 5 miles down river from Syringa and almost 11 miles up river from Kooskia. So there.

Added a favicon.ico to the header of all the HTML. To get this to show up, (that is in most browsers), you'll prolly have to delete any 'whiskey7.net' bookmarks/shortcuts you might have, re-bookmark and maybe even clear your chache. Le'me know if it doesn't work for you.

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More testing w/ Bi-Quad

Friday, March 24 2006 @ 07:41 AM CST
Contributed by: w7net
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I noticed wild signal level fluctuations on the WIFI link yesterday and discovered that Patty was moving around in the kitchen preparing a meal. I should have known better....

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Bi-Quad Update

Wednesday, March 22 2006 @ 08:00 AM CST
Contributed by: w7net
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Checked the dimensions on the Bi-Quad antenna and all were within +/-0.5mm. Drat, not sure what is going on here but, it's going to be a while before I can test the coaxial feed configuratioin because, I need to locate my hoard of copper and brass fittings to make it.

It may be easier to find what I need to build a test patch antenna.

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Bi-Quad Antenna Performance

Tuesday, March 21 2006 @ 08:36 AM CST
Contributed by: w7net
Views: 483

Boy, was I surprised when I found that the new WIFI Bi-Quad antenna did not improve performance of my link.....

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New WIFI Antenna

Saturday, March 18 2006 @ 04:29 PM CST
Contributed by: w7net
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Just finished fab on a new 'bi-quad' antenna.

Click the image (~800kB), to have a look.

I got the info for this antenna from 'martybugs.net' site which does a real nice job of packaging up several home-brew WIFI antenna projects. I made one change to the construction where I just used a 14ga post for the ground side of the feedpoint as opposed to the specified 'coaxial' extension above the 'reflector' as shown on the martybug.net site.

Monday, I expect to receive a shipment of 'jumpers' to hook this antenna up to the Airnet AP. I'll post results when I have them.

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WIFI Imrprovements

Saturday, March 18 2006 @ 11:02 AM CST
Contributed by: w7net
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Since turning up WildBlue for INTERNET access, I have been using my Netgear WGT624 v2 wireless router/AP to ship connectivity from the shop building, where the WildBlue dish and modem are located, to the residence. I've been using the "vanilla" rubber ducks on both ends of the link, getting only about 18mb/s connection.

That's about to change.....

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Welcome new user: Daryl - n5hnx

Thursday, March 09 2006 @ 05:28 PM CST
Contributed by: w7net
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Just got off the phone w/ my old bud from North Central AR. Daryl - n5hnx, sure was good to hear from him, been over a year. Well, Daryl got an account here and I hope we get to hear from him on the blog....

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Bye-bye Dial-up.... Hello WildBlue!

Tuesday, February 28 2006 @ 03:40 PM CST
Contributed by: w7net
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My dial-up ISP had been been crying bad phone lines for a year now. Now they are history!

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Balanced Line Feed_Thru

Friday, February 24 2006 @ 01:50 PM CST
Contributed by: w7net
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I'm feeding a horizontal 80m full wave loop w/ 430 ohm window line and wanted to address issues I was having feeding the line out a window sill with the moveable light slammed down on it. I came up w/ this

simple arrangement to enable thru-wall feed.

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Link to Old W7NET site in right hand block

Friday, February 24 2006 @ 07:34 AM CST
Contributed by: w7net
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First cut at making a block for GeekLog. I needed to have a tantalizing link to content on my old site and a picture-link-block fits the bill. The inital picture is of my simulation for a stack of 4 each 3 wavelength long boom 2 meter yagis. 20db forward gain!

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