@vernonland5987
Gabe: "Hi, I'm Gabe and I just bought another pallet of antennas" Group: "Hello Gabe"
@AgencyNighthawk
You know what this means - you need to start your own peer-2-peer WISP for all your friends!
@spookysammy7245
Time to build a phased array antenna!
@harleyeater33
Starts off like an antenna anonymous meeting.🤣🤣
@webluke
In 2003, my friend and I built out a wireless ISP using a single T1 line and a bunch of 802.11b wireless gear. Some of it had to have special software to compensate after we went over 1 mile. One site was at the radio station's tower, and the other was on the side of the hill next to the town and ran off solar and wind (Wyoming wind is crazy). Now we have Starlink, and fiber is getting run all over the place; my rural house, when I moved in, could only get the early Starlink, but now I have two fiber options 3 years later. The interesting thing was when I looked at higher populated areas in the Eastern USA, they had one fiber company with 40% of the town, and the cable company still had the monopoly. Out west here in CO, we are getting a lot of fiber.
@TofuInc
Those sector antennas have about 30db gain depending on beamwidth, they do work well for wifi. We've used similar ones for a wifi at different RV parks. I run a Wisp we started about 8 years ago. I used to work for the largest Wisp in the state and they used a ton of Cambium equipment.
@LunarHermit
I used to work for a WISP! I swear almost no one knows what a WISP is. XD Some fun looking stuff here! The feedhorn radios are pretty boring inside. The Ubiquiti ones are at least; they're just a single PCB with little pin header looking things for antennas. For short range stuff, you can just use them without the dish if you want to do a quick and dirty building to building connection.
@karcinogen
You're not alone, I too have an antenna problem. Recently picked up one of those WIFI grid antennas. Going to try to build my own satellite tracker. Wish me luck, I have zero experience with coding or programming....haha
@Synthwave_Ash
I worked as an installer for a WISP in Northern MN for a while. Was a pretty fun job, climbing on things and drill holes through fancy lake houses. Climbing a Municipal Water Tower on New Years Day as less fun though haha
@redline9k
I am subscribed to a WISP with a little microwave dish on my house and recently fiber was installed offering 1GBPS for 70$ a month no installation or hardware fee. I'm currently getting 20mbps with 5 up for the same exact price, gave them a shout out today to send me faster speeds or its fiber time.
@BRPEngineering
I have a suggestion for the small offset dishes: solar cookers! Either get some silver metallic spray paint or some mirror film to put on them, and see what temperatures you can get to at the focus.
@flapjack9495
If I had enough storage space I'd be doing exactly what you're doing - hoarding tons of electronic junk that I may or may not actually use!
@SpAm-AcCoUnT
Hey, neat! I do very WISP-y work out west installing microwave point to point backhaul for wildfire cameras on microwave towers. I’ll tell ya what, the smaller dishes make great nerdy ceiling lamps if you rip the feed horns out and put a cool bulb in. Just get one of them single bulb kits, and hang by a prussik to the ceiling by the cord. Might be a funny solution for lighting in the sand bar. My office has 6 of ‘em lighting it, damaged in various ways from mostly icefall. Amazing that a dying wisp actually took down any tower hardware at all, a lot of the time where I’m at, the orphaned stuff all languishes up top until someone else needs the space.
@confuseatronica
that stack-o-dishes is so cool- you need to set one up with a microphone to listen to birds or whatever, put silver paint or tape for a solar cooker or coffee warmer
@gorak9000
If sandland doesn't have internet, I"m pretty sure you have enough hardware to setup a point to point link to somewhere that does now. Those offset dishes are usually Motorola Canopy, but I've never seen those can-tenna feeds before - usually they just mount the canopy radio at the feed point of the dish. I'd like to see some detail of those feeds and what radio they're connected to if you still have the radios in a future video
@BlackPilledKiwi
Maybe you could do a massive radio telescope aray at Sandland. Just space thrm all out in a grid looking up lololol
@bryanmcniel
You are not a hoarder. You are a collector. You preserve history. (or at least that's what I tell myself) I would do the same thing if I had the opportunity.
@bigjonno68
Those offset dishes, you could try arranging multiple dishes around a central focus, like petals on a flower. It'll be fun.
@peckservers
I am so jealous of that find. those ISP microwave antennas are awesome!
@saveitforparts