Posts Tagged ‘xr5’

304km WIFI Link with 1.2m Dishes and pictures of the feeders.

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

 

This one is old news but I found this now.

Link : sticked in mikrotik wireless forums and http://www.engadget.com/world-record-5ghz-wifi-189-miles/

304km is very good result. Congratulations!

304km wifi link

While I aiming stable links of about 1 to 3 km this looks impossible to reach for me.

Interesting is – home made antennas – they used 1.2 meter dishes and homemade feeders for reflectors.

Here is hardware used : “a pair of Ubiquiti XR5, and a pair of handmade antenna (120cm satellite dish for the surface, and a bronze ball-bearing extracted from a bus).” After connection cards power is lowered to 10mW !

The link is possible due some of the features of the Mikrotik software.

304km WIFI Link with 1.2m Dishes and pictures of the feeders.304km WIFI Link with 1.2m Dishes and pictures of the feeders.

As constructor of the antennas is mentioned Paolo IK0PCJ – You can find a link to his site in my previous post.

Look like that the smaller feeder is used. There are NO dimensions on the forum so I do not put links to it.

This look simple enough so if You know the frequency – You will be able to calculate and build one of these.