DTC <no_spam@move_along_folks.foob> hath wroth:

>Can you stay tethered to a fixed location? Five ft. diameter dishes are
>clumsy to carry around.

I keep suggesting an inflatable dish antenna at various meetings, but
nobody seems interested in selling one.

I have been known to carry a 3ft (24dBi) dish antenna on top of a
telescoping fiberglass pole looking for interference. It's quite a
balancing act and requires both skill and a good insurance carrier.

The local university (UCSC) built a new science and engineering
building without providing for Wi-Fi. They also installed aluminized
mylar coated windows for thermal insulation. The result is the
equivalent of a large shielded screen room with little Wi-Fi or
cellular coverage. Students have been seen with various strange
antenna arrays including a large panel "backpack antenna", small
panels on hats, collinear verticals on a pole, and various bizarre
reflectors. Necessity may be the mother of invention, but desperation
and kludge are close relatives.

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