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M1 antenna setup
Hello all, Just ordered 2 Wilson 10dbi yagi's and cables and patch cords, etc. My question is how do you have yours mounted? Stacked, side by side, or + 45 -45 In in a rural area in east T.N. and ...
I'm be curious to know what would happen if you got a wide band antenna. It may be possible that would get much better signal on the B4 then the switching between the two might not matter.
jpr78 "I'm be curious to know what would happen if you got a wide band antenna. It may be possible that would get much better signal on the B4 then the switching between the two might not matter"
1) towers are in two different directions. i would likely need two yagis....omni directional antennas do not have enough gain in my rural location.
2) in my rural location, we are lucky to receive 700MHz. in general, higher frequencies are going to be sketchy out here. i might not be able to improve band 4 signal with an antenna.
3) the limitation with wide band antennas is gain. low gain solutions might work in the city/burbs.....but rural is a whole different thing.
that all said, if AT&T is going to ping pong me between towers and bands, i have no option but to try wide band if i need faster speeds and see what happens. right now family has no complaints about 20-50Mbit speeds with one external yagi antenna.
I can't imagine why a wide band wouldn't help. If you are already picking up the weak band without it, I feel sure it'll improve the signal. Again, as I've mentioned with my setup. The signal is there but unusable for me without an antenna. The antennas makes both B12 and B4 usable. I'd get the wideband and point your one antenna directly at the B4 tower first to see what happens.
I had a little bit of time to play around with my antennas and see if I could improve signal. Here's what I noticed(of course in my case). I tried the two antennas in a "V" shape for the first time. I didn't see any real difference between "V", ">", "<" though. Then I tried a single yagi, completely vertical just like you have. Holy band hopper! I saw B2, B4, B12 and B30. The nighthawk jumped around to all these bands. However, none of the signals were usable(good to know what bands are out there in my area though). It really makes me wonder what kind of signal I might get if I was on the roof and not in the attic. I would need longer LMR for that though and I can't help but wonder if the gains would be negated by the length of cable. I'm current using 25' cables. Finally, I left that one antenna vertical and mounted the second antenna horizontal. In this configuration, I'm surprisingly seeing slightly better signal than the "V",">","<" formations . My RSRP stays closer to -110 and the RSRQ stays closer to -8. My downloads and uploads have been better last night and this morning in this vertical/horizontal configuration as well. Most notably the uploads have gone from 2Mbps to 4Mbps on average. I need to see how things go for teh remainder of the week with the antennas in this orientation. When I can find more time to test more I certainly will but that's all I got for now!
How do you "see" the bands?