Pat:
Can you take a battery-powered HF radio onto the roof and listen to
both locations - the current antenna location and the proposed new remote
location? That might be all you need to decide your course of action.
73 de
Gene Smar AD3F
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pat Barthelow" <aa6eg@hotmail.com>
To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 8:04 PM
Subject: [TowerTalk] Antenna Separation to eliminate Computer RFI
> Folks,
>
> I am helping a local university bring up an HF station equipped with
> Winlink Modems and softare to use as a medium for teaching computer
> networking and security. The station antenna is set up in the main
> student and classroom computing center, on the roof, within 100 ft of
maybe
> 150-200 networked computers. Surprise Surprise, S-9 white noise hash on
> most bands.
> My question is, We need to have the Transmitter and winlink setup located
at
> a classroom teaching position, along side the HF station, but it may be
> possible to move the antenna some distance away from the building. Is it
> likely that a movement of the antenna from directly over the computing
> rooms, to, say 150 ft horizontally away will reduce the current noise
> sufficiently to be usable? How rapidly does the signal intensity
decrease,
> as I move the antenna away from the building?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Pat Barthelow aa6eg@hotmail.com
>
>
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