[NLRS] 2.4 GHz antenna

[Ford Peterson]

K0CQ wrote:

> Not so much gain with 30 degree beamwidth. Maybe another router in the
> house located at a window with an omni antenna inside. Or another router
> in the house hooked by wire to the the hamshack LAN.
> 
> It may not be so much antenna pattern as attenuation through the house
> walls, especially in this house with steel siding.
> 
> -- 
> 73, Jerry, K0CQ
> Dr. Gerald N. Johnson, electrical engineer
> All content copyright, Dr. Gerald N. Johnson

While the hard-wired LAN connection is not a good option due to the nature of my driveway (large and wide driveway is a barrier requiring 200' + of trenching in concrete-like crushed granite rock), the additional router warrants some consideration.  These 802.11G hot-spot routers are only about $80 and are virtually plug-and-play with XP.  While it would take some noodling around with the connection, that additional router would effectively make a repeater that would illuminate the whole house much better.  I wonder if they have algorythms that allow multiple networks to co-exist in the same space?

Thanks to everybody that had great ideas.  Several antenna ideas seemed to be fairly easy solutions.  Patch antennas are cheap too.  But the additional S/N up in the house would likely make a more robust connection possible.

Ford-N0FP
ford at cmgate.com