[HamWAN PSDR] HamWAN via passive reflectors

[Ryan Elliott Turner]

We in Memphis have had lots of luck using urban buildings as passive
reflectors, too. Our longest link yet here was made possible by one! We
also have HamWAN coverage downtown Memphis all thanks to reflections.

Glad that you had such luck, Bart.

On Sat, Jun 6, 2015, 20:09 Bryan Fields <Bryan at bryanfields.net> wrote:

> On 6/6/15 9:03 PM, Bart Kus wrote:
> > We pointed the dish at a random hillside across the water from Luther
> Burbank,
> > and picked up Capitol Park @ up to -73dBm.  Bouncing off this hillside
> we got
> > 3.5Mbit download and 5Mbit upload speeds to the Internet.
> >
> > I guess the lesson here is: If you don't have a direct path to a HamWAN
> cell
> > site, perhaps you can try playing with some indirect reflected paths to
> get
> > connected!
>
> Very cool!
>
> Bart, are these dual pol links or vertical only?  If they are vertical
> only,
> did you try switching to horizontal at your client end?
>
> Generally a single reflection will cause a 90 degree shift in polarization.
> Some times over multiple ones you can have some fun things happen that you
> can't model.
>
> Also in most cases a passive reflector is only going to be useful if one
> station is very close to it with the other being further away.
>
> 73's W9CR
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