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another antenna alignment question

Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 7:47 pm
by bhamhotspots
I have a location that is line of site, 1.5 miles away from each other. Using a 900 MHz Antenna for backhaul. I can see the antennas, but the noise greatly outweighs the signal strength.

When you setup locations with different elevations, line of sight or non-line of sight, how do you align your antennas?

What have you found to be the optimal way to align antennas?

Thank you in advance for your help.

Re: another antenna alignment question

Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 5:58 am
by RK
Why would you use 900 MHz for LOS applications?
Use 5 GHz, it's cheaper, faster, and has much less noise.

I allign antennas by eye and then use the allignment tool in Winbox to fine tune it.

Re: another antenna alignment question

Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 5:01 pm
by bhamhotspots
Well, I was only using them because they were laying around. But I took your advice, and ordered me some (5.8 GHz 23 dBi Flat Patch) antennas for this shot.

:)

Let yah know how it turns out.