<div dir="ltr">That's a good idea Dale. Please let me know what you find out. Also, Doug, thank you for that idea. Pending that tower camera idea, I'll go ahead and get the gear and if it doesn't work for me I'll donate it to the team for someone else to make use of.<br><div><br></div><div>Jeff</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 10:52 PM Dale Skyllingstad <<a href="mailto:dskyllingstad@harbornet.com">dskyllingstad@harbornet.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">We can also look in that direction with the tower camera to see if the hill obscures your QTH. If the camera at the top of the tower can't see it, the sector lower on the tower most definitely will not.
<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Dale</div><div dir="auto">AH6ET</div><div><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-size:100%;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: "Jeff LaPlante (KM6ISJ)" <<a href="mailto:km6isj@jefflaplante.com" target="_blank">km6isj@jefflaplante.com</a>> </div><div>Date: 8/27/20 10:28 PM (GMT-08:00) </div><div>To: Puget Sound Data Ring <<a href="mailto:psdr@hamwan.org" target="_blank">psdr@hamwan.org</a>> </div><div>Subject: Re: [HamWAN PSDR] New Node - Guidance on buying hardware and feasibility of link from my QTH </div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr">Yes, I'm a little concerned about this hill. I don't know the site, is this hill cleared by the elevation of the sector antenna?<br><br><div><img height="290" width="562" alt="Screen Shot 2020-08-27 at 10.25.49 PM.png" src="cid:17433a5cbf9a0e47d3f1" name="m_282874780788453203_com_samsung_android_email_attachmentprovider_1_7082_RAW_1598593722802"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 10:04 PM Jamie Owens <<a href="mailto:jlowens76@gmail.com" target="_blank">jlowens76@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">You might want to check and see about this? Any obstructions including trees will poor to no signal.<br><br><div><img height="244" width="562" alt="image.png" src="cid:17433a5cbfacb971f162" name="m_282874780788453203_com_samsung_android_email_attachmentprovider_1_7081_RAW_1598593722803"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 9:58 PM Jeff LaPlante (KM6ISJ) <<a href="mailto:km6isj@jefflaplante.com" target="_blank">km6isj@jefflaplante.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">Thank you all for the help. It looks like I can make a link work from my place to Blyn. I'll order the antenna and radio. <br><br><div><img height="146" width="562" alt="hamwan_Blyn_to_km6isj.png" src="cid:17433a5cbfafc3613fa3" name="m_282874780788453203_com_samsung_android_email_attachmentprovider_1_7080_RAW_1598593722804"><br></div><div>Jeff</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 9:12 PM Jamie Owens <<a href="mailto:jlowens76@gmail.com" target="_blank">jlowens76@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">This supplier has the antennas in stock, I got one this week <br><br><a href="https://www.ispsupplies.com/MikroTik-RouterBOARD-mANT30-PA" target="_blank">https://www.ispsupplies.com/MikroTik-RouterBOARD-mANT30-PA</a> <br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 7:54 PM James Betteley <<a href="mailto:jabetteley@msn.com" target="_blank">jabetteley@msn.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">
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