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Tron Of Borg · 01-26-2003

Can you bounce your signal off a building to get around the obstacle? I'd rather do this with an antenna at both ends then put a repeater in between. It's just another point of failure.

If you can't bounce then set up a passive repeater. Get two patch antennas and tie them together. Aim one at one radio and the other at the other radio.

The advantage to a bounce or passive repeater besides the elemination of the middle link failure is that you preserve your bandwidth and spectrum. To repeat, you are taking over twice as long to transmit the same data. Once to receive and again to transmit at the repeater site. Or, you'd have to use 2 radios on different channels to save your bandwidth but then you have the added expense of the radio and you tie up another channel.

Tron Of Borg

01-26-2003	#3 (permalink)
Tron Of Borg Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Tampa, FL Posts: 47	Bounce! Can you bounce your signal off a building to get around the obstacle? I'd rather do this with an antenna at both ends then put a repeater in between. It's just another point of failure. If you can't bounce then set up a passive repeater. Get two patch antennas and tie them together. Aim one at one radio and the other at the other radio. The advantage to a bounce or passive repeater besides the elemination of the middle link failure is that you preserve your bandwidth and spectrum. To repeat, you are taking over twice as long to transmit the same data. Once to receive and again to transmit at the repeater site. Or, you'd have to use 2 radios on different channels to save your bandwidth but then you have the added expense of the radio and you tie up another channel. Tron Of Borg __________________ Tron Of Borg Last edited by Tron Of Borg : 01-26-2003 at 10:35 PM.