[Mesh] Satellite dish antennas

Marc Juul marcjc at gmail.com
Mon Feb 18 16:57:41 PST 2013


I want to start doing some experiments with roof to roof wifi.

I think it would be a worthwhile to get two portable satellite
antennas with tripods and see what we can get out of them.

With such a minor investment in equipment we will be able test whether
two rooftop locations can connect to each other before we go out and
buy dedicated equipment for installation.

The small direct tv dishes can be had for $15 to $25 on craigslist.

I found the following on craigslist for $35:

*Two satellite dish tripods
*Alignment compass
*Two small satellite dishes

The problem is that it's spread over two locations, one in Hayward and
one in Milpitas.

Are any of you going near Milpitas and/or Hayward this week and would
you have time to pick this up? If not, I can probably go on a field
trip.

If we get this stuff, then we would additionally need:

*Two sets of binoculars (we only need to borrow them)
*One more compass
*Two wifi usb adapters or smaller wifi to ethernet adapters

What would be really amazing is two sets of binoculars with built-in
compasses, but we can do without.

-- 
Marc Juul



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