steve ulrich wrote: > > long ago in a galaxy far far away, (or around 18-24 months ago at a > WUG meeting in bloomington) andy warner did a nice presentation of his > hacks to put a wap11 into a die-cast enclosure. complete with a > discussion regarding PoE (power over ethernet) and some rudimentary > lightning arrestor discussion. > > andy, not to sound like a nag but did you ever finish the picture > editing and build notes process? ;-) You know, I never quite did, and I'm under a crushing deadline until about Wednesday, so it ain't going to happen before then either - but I can summarise: I took a standard low-end commercial AP, and recased it in a weatherproof diecast box (from DigiKey), it is mounted on the antenna pole, about 5' below the antenna, and powered over the ethernet cable. Since it's had so much airtime, I can report that it has performed flawlessly through all the seasons. I took photos of each step. I will sit down with gimp/xv/photoshop as soon as I can and do the step-by-step, I promise. I'm glad to see others are addressing the feedline-loss issue, I settled for about 8' of 1/2" hardline, which should be costing be somewhere < 1dB including connectors if memory serves me correctly. While we're talking about reducing the feedline loss, I've had the opportunity to evaluate the fully integrated solutions from Tranzeo (e.g. http://www.tranzeo.com/products.php?cmd=viewpage&id=167), and have been quite impressed. If I can ever make it to a Tuesday meeting (Tuesdays nights are difficult for me to schedule), I'll bring one along for show and tell. -- andyw at pobox.com Andy Warner Voice: (612) 801-8549 Fax: (208) 575-5634 _______________________________________________ Twin Cities Wireless Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.tcwug.org tcwug-list at tcwug.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tcwug-list