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John Galt
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Happy Camp
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| Re: Are wireless transmissions affected by gravity? As the signal travels from the antenna, it gets weaker, and cannot maintain its forward momentum. Therefore, its velocity decreases and it starts to fall out of the sky.
Use of devices called "skyhooks" are useful...you screw them into the clouds, and the signal "swings" between them like Tarzan on a vine.
So, the short answer to your question is "yes"...gravity affects your signal.
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wifi repair
join:2004-05-06
Wilkes Barre, PA | LMFAO.. I believe I may have some of those skyhooks laying around if you want them. | |
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amerigowire
join:2004-07-27
Vacaville, CA | On longer link, I actually tilt the dish up a few degrees to compensate for this. It's not a terribly scientific process, more like Kentucky windage. | |
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Oilton, OK | Re: windage My skyhook sits in my toolbox next to my cable and fiber stretchers. Wonderful tools....
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superdog
I Need A Drink
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join:2001-07-13
Lebanon, PA
| said by amerigowire  :It's not a terribly scientific process, more like Kentucky windage. OMFG!, LMAO!!!!:D:D:D:D:D
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bito
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join:2001-10-08
Atlanta, GA
| Re: windage Hehe, I love Fridays.
"Downtilt" is a method by which your antenna (usually an omni) blasts some on your signal down by a few degrees so that you don't overshoot everyone. If you think of the radiation pattern of an omni as a donut, then downtilt is good for making the donut angle downwards on each side so it hits the ground a lot closer to your antenna. You get the idea. I am too shot out to explain better 
Oh, and I like to use my "skyhook" on my "relaxing weekend" | |
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Book
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Shepherd, MI | I picked up a bunch of those sky hooks cheap on Ebay but the helium nozzle was busted. | |
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cmaenginsb
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join:2001-03-19
Palmdale, CA
| To clarify downtilt is used in point to multipoint links because typically the customers are beneath the transmission site requiring the antenna to be pointed down.
As to point to points anyone who is doing these will adjust both the down/uptilt and radial setting until the signal is at it's maximum. | |
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grcore
New and Improved
join:2003-12-06
usa
| In fact, radio waves are affected by gravity. But the mass and density of the earth is much too small to have any noticablee affect at all.
Even the sun which has several hundred thousand times the mass of the earth, it's gravity has only a minute effect.
There would have to be a singularity within relative proximity on order for any effect to be noticeable. And the nearest one is speculated to be about 1600 light years away.
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John Galt
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Happy Camp | Re: Are wireless transmissions affected by gravity I recognize that squirrel...
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bito
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join:2001-10-08
Atlanta, GA
| said by grcore :There would have to be a singularity within relative proximity on order for any effect to be noticeable. Hmmm, methinks that if there were a singularity close by, it's effect on my WISP equipment is going to be the least of my concerns | |
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countrysky
join:2004-01-12
Cleburne, TX | On a similar note, have you guys heard of the BOG initiative, Broadband Over Gravity? I hear it's gonna wipe out all the WISP's sometime around Spring 2007.
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