[TowerTalk] Temp tower idea

Jim Lux jimlux at earthlink.net
Tue Mar 13 20:23:43 PDT 2012


On 3/13/12 12:23 PM, Kipton Moravec wrote:
> Having experience with HSMM-MESH my recommendation would be to have
> something that is over peoples heads and then relay it from the edge of
> the area where there are fewer people and where you can put your taller
> tower.
>
> The biggest issue we have found in the past couple of years is that
> everything works until people show up. Nowadays everyone has a phone
> with WiFi that is trying to find a signal and it raises the noise floor.
> And what worked when testing, does not work when the public shows up.
>
> The best fix is to use directional antennas at horizontal polarity, and
> get the long distance hop away from the 6000 people.
>


What about 5.8 GHz band?


But more towards the tower thing..
One of those 40 ft poles from the Spiderbeam folks could easily hold 
something up at 30+ ft without too much trouble. You'd need to figure 
out some sort of base to hold it upright (i'd look at a tripod of short 
painter poles or 2x4s or something like that.)

At 40 ft, the tippy top is pretty thin and flexible.

They also have taller poles that are bigger.



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