<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">You need clear line of sight and trees are a problem. I think you have high trees surrounding your tower. You antenna needs to be positioned so it clears the trees, either over them or through a gap in the tree line.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Trees and 5GHz don't play nice together.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">-Doug-</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Oct 10, 2020 at 7:13 PM Don Sayler <<a href="mailto:don.sayler@gmail.com">don.sayler@gmail.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="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Hi Folks,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">A couple of years ago we at the Lake Washington Ham Club looked at using Hamwan for our limited connectivity needs. At the time, there didn't appear to be very good coverage at our site.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size:large">I</span><font size="4" face="arial, sans-serif"> looked at it again today, and the coverage looks much better (the black square is our site... 47.663751°, -122.166478°).</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><div><img src="cid:ii_kg4gwh890" alt="image.png" width="454" height="438"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Does the map account for trees? Are there any height requirements for the antenna? We have a huge water tank about 20 feet east of the building. We do have a tower, but getting the hamwan antenna up there would be a challenge. Is there a way we could do a site survey?<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">We don't have a large bandwidth need. All we need is support for Echolink, Telnet, and (for now) IRLP, as well as AllStar in the future.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Thanks for any input.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Don Sayler W7OXR</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Treasurer LWHC</div></div>
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