802.11b Waveguide Antenna
Feb 27th 2007carltonNetworking
I’m working on a wireless link between our house and my sisters house across the pasture down the hill from us. I measured the distance at about 0.6 miles and decided to start with some cheap experimentation. This is the first antenna I have ever built and it does a pretty good job of getting the signal where I need it. It’s too ghetto for me so I know Ellyn would hate it if she happened upon it out in the yard. I have ordered a set of grid parabolic antennas which should make the connection exponentially more reliable. These pictures are funny though. The antenna is made from 4″ dryer duct, a 4″ – 6″ adapter and a panel mount N-type female connector. Literally everything else is scrounged. I did go ahead and buy the weatherproof box to house the access point which runs on power over Ethernet. The only thing I had to run to the entire rig was a single cat 5 Ethernet cable. Check out this site, it’s where I wound up when I was researching this thing. Turns out this has been done before.
