Ard,
Yes, this is a very good idea - however, you need to consider how many
_statistically_significant_ points you need too get a proper antenna
pattern - and you need to be aware that you can get spurious results
from reflections - so ideally you will do the same exercise from
several points to try to eliminate the effect of these spurii.
The technique is a form of 'tomography', used not only by antenna
engineers when needed but greatly used by remote sensing scientists and
medical imaging people.
Cheers
Ian
On 18 May 2004, at 14:55, ard jonker wrote:
Just came up with an idea; if you war drive your neighbourhood -and beyond- with GPS enabled, save the map, put up a dish-setup and swipe it across the neighbourhood, you can determine the reach of the dish setup.--
From the map simply calculate the distance of an AP found in the war drive to your dish setup .
Even without hi tech equipment it is then easy to find out what setup works the best for you.
ard
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