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On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 04:38:12 +0200, "Steve Lusardi"
wrote:

What happened to your antenna project. It was doing so well?
Steve

"Bruce in Bangkok" wrote in message ...
On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 13:47:52 +0200, "Steve Lusardi"
wrote:

Bruce,
This SW really looks good. Please keep us informed on your experience with it. Perhaps your best bet to answer your questions
would be this forum http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/...ral-30946.html

Steve


I'll give it a look if I ever get a good wifi connection here. At the
moment I can't even get all the messages here.

Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)


Yup. Built a super cantenna and ended up with approximately 4 times
the laptop alone signal. But as of two days ago we moved and the new
place is behind several concrete buildings which offsets the antenna
gain somewhat.

I've got a 4 ft. ex-satellite TV antenna that I am re-doing, using a
cantenna for the feed element that I'll install on a light pole,
hopefully soon, that ought to improve things up a bit.

So far I've built a "pringles", a corner reflector and a quad antenna
in addition to the various cantennas and no doubt that the cantenna is
the way to go..... but of course they are directional and the higher
the gain the more directional.

Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)