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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Bryan/Ryan:</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Are you guys doing the link between the two HamWAN sites via RF? If so, what is the link budget?</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Since you tested it in the winter, I suspect lots of</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Fresnel</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">zone issues and reflection off of the bay plus tropo issues in the summer.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">How do I know this? I had a</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">2 watt/30dBi gain</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Horizontal pol</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">7GHz hop from across the street from RayJay to Riverview over Hillsborough Bay and in the summer, the path was a mess due to temperature inversion layer differences over ground vs the bay</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">… Needed diversity receive antennas at Riverview.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> I had a hell of a time with that path! Thank god for Fiber – The RF path was the secondary STL for WFTS.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">The path over the bay is BRUTAL in the summer, especially in the early morning/late evening.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Wonder how this will affect that link.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> It will be interesting to see. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Don’t</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">know how much fade margin you guys have in the link budget.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Any thoughts?</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">-lu-W4LT</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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