[Fourlanders] Fw: ...a 55-mile Wi-Fi connection

[Paul Yeager]

Well, if what you need are credible witnesses who are of good standing 
in the Ham community, I know a few in the area we could call.

What are you thinking of using for antennae?  My AO-40 RX dish would 
probably work well, especially if the other end was also circularly 
polarized.  Or perhaps I could construct a liinear polarized feed.

Jim Worsham wrote:

>I was thinking of doing this sometime in the Spring/Summer of next year.
>Maybe a couple of days before the June contest since we will be in NC
>anyway.  I was thinking of something like Mile High to Roan or Mile High to
>Mitchell.  I believe both of those paths should be around 100 miles give or
>take.  Of course we need to check the path and verify that there are no
>obstructions and that we have a near optical (line of sight) path.  I
>believe that Robin has some software that can do that for us.  Equipment
>wise I believe we already have a good bit of what we need.  We may need to
>come up with another antenna and another PA.  One idea I had is to contact
>Steve at DEMI and tell him what we are doing.  He might be willing to loan
>us what we need just for the publicity and bragging rights.  Kind of like
>what Icom, Yaesu, etc. do for the big DXpeditions.  The only thing I am not
>sure about is how do we verify this?  It will need to be verified by some
>independent party.  Maybe the ARRL?  Anyway, I don't want to spend a whole
>lot of time on this now.  We need to stay focused on efforts for the
>September contest.  I just wanted to get folks thinking about this.  I am
>sure we could beat this record and I think it would be cool to have W4NH in
>the record books for something like this.
>
>73
>Jim W4KXY
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>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Brian McCarthy" <rfacres at akorn.net>
>To: <fourlanders at contesting.com>
>Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 9:06 AM
>Subject: Re: [Fourlanders] Fw: ...a 55-mile Wi-Fi connection
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>>It's too bad 'NJP's dishes are not a bit higher. If they cleared the
>>trees at his place...
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>>On the diagonal measurement we should be able to slide a pair of fully
>>assembled 10' dishes into the Great White. I wonder how well illumiated
>>their dishes were?
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>>Sounds like fun! It's too bad I won't have time to work on it for
>>awhile, but maybe next spring? What mountains should we try it between?
>>
>>Brian
>>NX9O
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>>Jim Worsham wrote:
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>>>Hey guys, I think we can beat these kids!  Anyone interested in trying?
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>>>73
>>>Jim W4KXY
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