Definately a bad radio or poor receiver. Will be interesting to see what
others report.
Tony, have you done any tests on these receivers?
Bill
> Bill, I'm seeing a S/N ratio much lower. Both signal and noise are much
> depressed over the Orinoco card...but for that matter, running
> the SOM for a
> link of 7.5mi with 20dB xmit power into a 15 dB antenna (with about 20' of
> LMR 400, 4 connectors, one lightning arrestor) into a 24dB
> antenna with that
> 4' pigtail, Orinoco card, should result in a receive signal of
> -66dBm. What
> I'm seeing is right around -80dBm. So, something isn't kosher. I don't
> know if the antenna is aimed directly at this place I'm taking
> measurements
> at--it may be that the 15dB gain on the antenna is less for this
> particular
> place.
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