Setting up a WIFI link between DL8RDS and DB0MHB
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Version vom 28. September 2008, 02:19 Uhr von Dl8rds (Diskussion | Beiträge)
This project is the supertarget of other projects:
- Turn a Fonera router into a link station. My Fonera router will be the link transceiver station on the DL8RDS side.
- Upgrade an ASUS WL-500gP to control my RIG. I am running two ASUS routers: One to control my DL8RDS rig and the other to control the DB0MHB rig.
- WLAN and Amateur Radio - Here is some technical background...
Progress report
- 2008-09-28 No good. Today it was a sunny autumn day and my friend Bernd DJ6PA was ready to help me over at DB0MHB. At my station, I placed my small tube-enclosed 13cm YAGI into a basket of clothes, directing it right towards DB0MHB, as I have clear sight to DB0MHB. Then I took the car and drove over to get the other side right. But what a disappointment. It was not possible to establish a link. Maybe it was up to the polarization, which I didn't consider at all right away (as a shortwave guy you don't have enough space anyway to care for polarization, but for SHF it seems really important). Maybe it was up to the fact that the tube-enclosed WIFI YAGI was really not worth the money. Bernd already tested it and it didn't really work well. Anyway, let's give it another try. BTW, we had a number of other problems too, mostly due to the reason that these damn WIFI engineers always use Reverse SMA instead of normal SMA.
