Happy Hannukah

I have got as far as sourcing connectors and collecting prices.

EXCEPT for Lucent MC type connectors.
(For micro-coax connections into PCMCIA cards)

Does anyone have any info on Australian sources for these?
Or any decent pages on modifying the cards to accept other RF connector types?

No progress on other stuff due to work, beer and girl commitments.

One good thing is that I ended up finding a mast...buried in my front yard.
This is really a MAST though...really, as in it came from a boat of some kind.

But I am not fussy, it's 6-7 metres long, aluminium, and will lash nicely to a pole at the front of my house.

May end up being a lot easier than a freestanding 12 metre monstrosity...IF it is high enough to suit my needs.

Anyway, forget about reading any amazing new stuff here in the next 2 weeks or so..will be working/beering/skirt-chasing for a while longer.

For those of you not in Darwin, it may interest you to know that the wet season has arrived....
In hopefully unrelated news, the relay we built recently has just stopped working (today). I am praying it's just a breaker issue related to the shockingly bad power we seem to have in Darwin....won't know until we go topside, hopefully tomorrow.

Fingers crossed the Linksys WRT54GS and the Minitar APs are not water-damaged or cooked in some way..

See you in 2005

Dave

Almost there

Recent purchases:

2 * 802.11a and a/b ORiNOCO PCMCIA cards.
1 * New LCD screen for the wardiving laptop (Thanks Dad!)
2 * Cushcraft unity gain (2dBi) omnidirectionals

Soon to be purchased:

Assorted connectors and adaptors to allow me to connect any AP/card to any antenna under test.

Soon to be built:

Reference rig using 2 tripods and one of the above omnis.
This will be utilised for testing homebrew antennas for gain and radiation patterns.
It will have degree-adjustable azimuth, a scope and laser for alignment.

Mobile setup using second Cushcraft antenna. Used for mobile site-surveying of various relays around the traps.

If you are in Darwin or it's surrounds, drop me a line. There is a LOT of interest in WiFi connectivity here, you never know who may live close to you and be prepared to chip in towards setting up a relay.

As always, check DW for news, but if you don't get satisfaction there, contact me and I will see if I can help you out.

In other news....

No joy on a tower yet, I have one lined up but the owner has not gotten back to me yet. I don't want to push the issue; so it may be a while before I am properly on the air.

Have been playing with SNMP monitoring of our Linksys routers, also doing some PHP integration of retrieved SNMP stats into html pages.

Check out: this weird thing

They're trading on us!

Happy Holidays to you all..

Dave