AmateurLogic.TV Episode 10 is now available for download.
The Active Cantenna is Back! But this time we’ve added a Direct TV Satellite Dish to see what wifi improvements, if any, it makes.
Tommy brings us some cool night time photography tricks (or treats).
Jim finishes the Pudding Cup Capacitor in this episode.
And George found a neat Free PDF creation tool you just may want.
The show runs about 43 minutes.
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Great work so far. More, more, more… Especially about the radio 🙂
I loved the direct tv dish segment. But the power gain you got was alot more than 4 times. you were right on with 3 dB as double but 10 dB is 10 times the power level. Decibels are logarithms to the base 10. Voltage bd is 6 dB is double and 20 dB is 10 times the signal. The current record for WIFI is 125 miles at 10 mb/s. You guys ought to shoot for the record.
Thanks for the math.
We don’t have any mountains around here, so 125 miles would not be possible…
I think there is a video on utube about it it was in Nevada. They used a 3 meter wire dish with a ring yagi in the focal point. I am betting close to 20 dB of gain. The decibel concept was a tough one It was a big part of the CATV design. We all had to learn it from correspondence courses. It never made sense for a long time.