"David Marchand" wrote in message
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I am leaning to a system assembled by a cruiser from commercial
parts. See www.islandtimepc.com. Bob Stewart builds these using an
Ubiquiti Litestation2 board. It is powered by 12V DC injected into
the Ethernet cable and is a 400 mw amplifier. The amplifier specs
indicate good sensitivity. Bob sells a package with cables, POE
injector, the Ubiquiti board mounted in a waterproof NMEA aluminum
box and an 8 dB antenna for $329. Skip Grundlach a cruiser on this
board swears by the system.

David

I second that motion, heartily.

I have yet to go up the mast to change out my Linksys 48V POE, but his
is boat power, as the LiteStation2 can take anything between 5 and
some ridiculous amount of power, the #1 ethernet port on the board
takes the power from the POE directly, and it's what I connect on,
everywhere. However, unless it's been modified since my purchase, I
think it's only 250mw. That's been plenty for me, in any case.

Nuff said on that. Save yourself a bundle of time and aggravation
(see my posts beginning about 3 years ago on the subject, here and in
a couple of electronics/wifi groups) and buy the package unless you're
a serious networking geek and really enjoy that sort of bashing to
arrive at something similar...

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