[TowerTalk] Snow and rain attenuation

[kd4e]

Have you considered trying a yagi instead of their
dish?

Have you considered a heater on your dish?

 > Dan Hearn wrote:
> I have been compelled to use dial up ISP service for some time. Recently a
> high speed RF link service has become available. It operates on 5.7ghz. The
> ISP transmitter is located on a mountain top at about 15 miles distance and
> I have line of sight to it. The operator has recently increased power and
> thinks an acceptable signal to my location is available. They are ready to
> test for this.
>   I am concerned that our frequent snow and rain this winter might result in
> unreliable signal levels. The receiver end uses a dish and my experience
> with the Dish TV system is that less than an inch of snow on the reflector
> kills the signal. The ISP antennas on the mountain top are in a snow
> environment all winter for sure. They may have heaters on their antennas to
> solve this problem at that end.
>   Has anyone had experience in a situation like this? Should I stick with my
> dial up?


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