[Ham-80211] RE: ham-80211 Digest, Vol 29, Issue 1

[Eric S. Johansson]

ussailis at shaysnet.com wrote:
> There are two other things that can be important:
> 
> 1. DECREASING bandwidth will provide as much gain as increasing power.
> Reducing bandwidth by one-half provides 3 dB gain, the same as doubling
> power. Go down to 1 mbps if you are not there.
> 
> 2. Tree leaves are a horrid multipatrh generator. Some folks say that tree
> leaves attenuate. Actually, the mode is multipath reflection. This provides
> bith attenuation and phase changes. Not good.

how does dropping frequency affect trees and multipath?  for example, if we used 
all of 2 m, 220, and 440 for spread spectrum/data bandwidth, could we build an 
infrastructure that replaces and surpasses the capabilities provided by classic 
narrowband repeaters?

---eric


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