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Pending a permanent installation, I now have the antenna outside my
2nd story window (pictures pending), hanging from the 2nd story rain
gutter (plumbing PVC piping/fittings make excellent mounting
fixtures!). This has resulted in about a 6dB increase in signal
strength. Questions (from "interface wireless monitor 0"):<br>
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<li>"Signal-strength" (I take it this is receive signal strength?)
typically runs -86dBm to -90dBm; "tx-signal-strength" typically
runs about 5dB better, although I have seen them the same. With
the same radio at both ends (the other end is the DEM at Paine),
I would think they would usually be the same, except for
possible reflections, which I would think would be "equal
opportunity" in occasionally giving a better value to the
receive value, but that never happens.</li>
<li>What is "current-distance"? It's showing as "10" or "11".
I'm exactly 5 miles from the Paine DEM, so I would have thought
that this might be the round-trip distance, except I would have
thought that a physical distance would be reported in kilometers
(the manufacturer being outside of the USA).</li>
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Now I do not have to leave the window open ...<br>
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<p>-- Dean AE7Q<br>
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