At 11:38 AM 9/7/2006, Andrew Glasbrenner wrote:
I am in _TOTAL_ agreement. I live in the suburbs of Tampa/St. Pete and never had an interference problem on my 3 foot dish. I have used the same dish to log well over a dozen WiFi access points in that immediate neighborhood. With properly designed equipment, all that trash on 2.4 ghz goes away with some elevation. What won't work is helixes with multiple sidelobes, and surplus dishes that let one whole polarity of noise right thru the back.
I agree on the dish completely - when I had a BBQ (non) dish there was some noise until I covered it with screen, then it mostly went away. Even then, it was perhaps S-1 above the noise level, not anywhere near the S-3 I experience on 70cm and the S-6 I experience on 2M. With AO-51 I use a 2.4G yagi, and have never had any noise problems with it either.
Perhaps I've missed something but has the Eagle team published any empirical data on the subject?
73,
Emily