[BC] STL Options

[DANA PUOPOLO]

I used to shoot Hpol 40 miles across the Los Angeles basin with an 8 foot dish
on transmit (atop a 3500 foot mountain) and a 4 foot dish for receive, 200
feet up the tower. It worked great - until summertime! 
On summer afternoons, I could watch the signal vary from 3 mV to below 5 uV!
It was all over the place. I changed to Vpol and that fixed it but now we were
wiping out a digital STL link in San Diego (120 miles away!). We finally gave
up on the STL and went to a T1 solution.

-D



------ Original Message ------
Received: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 05:26:17 PM PST
From: Mike McCarthy <Towers at mre.com>
To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Subject: Re: [BC] STL Options

Just wait...those warm summer mornings will make you wish for a back-up 
system.  Tuust me...

You would do well to connect the receive signal strength meter to you RC 
and monitor it.  When it goes away, you will at least know there is loss of 
signal...

MM

At 02:19 PM 2/17/2006 -0600, Mike Holderfield wrote
>36 miles, clean path, no bodies of water,Starlink,
>Crescend amp,10 foot Mark TX ant, Paraflector RX antenna.
>22 db of fade margin. South Alabama.
>Been up and running since October.
>No problems/no fade so far. YMMV
>
>mike
>
>Bill Spry wrote:
>>I am looking for options to STL audio via microwave approximately 24 
>>miles. Is it possible to do this without hops?  Any advice would be 
>>appreciated.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>William J. Spry
>
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