[aprssig] flying digipeater?

[Curt, WE7U]

On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Scott Miller wrote:

> We were going to try that once for a transmitter hunt - send up a reflector
> and shoot a 4-element quad at it to see what confusing reflections we could
> generate.  Can't see how that would help much on the receive side, though.

What about a vertical omni connected via RG-174 coax to a short beam
pointed straight down?

I've seen commercial applications using two beams back-to-back in
order to connect two buildings together or multiple floors together
for 900 MHz spread-spectrum data radios.  The data radios themselves
had no physical connection to the antennas.  There were passive
repeaters.  Worked great.

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