I can imagine it would be cheaper than a month or two of celphones. But still more than I can afford (unless I ditch internet first for a few months to get the money.
Besides, if I can make this work with salvaged parts, it's more fun and better for my general goals of recycling/repurposing/reusing.
It's been ages (two decades?) since I worked with my ham radio skillzorz and made antennae, so this should be interesting to try. Possibly frustrating, but interesting.
I found one of the antenna mounting poles someone gave me a while back; somewhere here I also have a motor and contorl that goes with it that is supposed to be able to rotate a typical old TV roof antenna on it, from a dial in the house. If I can make that work again, I could use that to tweak the aim of the thing from inside the house for stuff that's purely horizontal aiming. So if I can find mulitple points along the same "horizon" for the antenna, I can simply rotate it on a vertical axis. To do *htat*, I would have to redo it's mounting so that it mounts on a post that sticks out from a vertical post at an angle equivalent to whatever is needed to point the antenna down below the horizon rather than upward at the sky.
It is now thundering and raining again; Loki woke my by crawling up on my bed in terror at the noise. Poor doggie is almost as bad as Bonnie was about that sort of thing; at least he doedsn't usually wet himself over it now. (and he doesn' bark or howl at such things like she sometimes would).
Now I can't sleep again because the window ac keeps freezing up from the high humidity and I keep having to turn it off for a few minutes to thaw. I thought my sensor mod fixed that but apparently not while it's actually raining. I also fixed some of the drainiage problems by peeling down the metal edging at the bottom of the "tray" of the unit, at the rear outisde edge, so the water can drain at that low point--before that it could be as much as a centimeter of water inside. I also tilted it more so it runs off faster to the outside, but this has caused the styrofaom inside it around the fan to shift, so the fan ticks on the foam and the water pools at the back edge of the foam in the fan cutout, so I will hvave to take the unit apart to fix that by punching a little hole at the base of the foam for drainage, and maybe "file" some of it off to prevent rubbing.
In the meantime it is very annoying as I can hear it over the boxfan and whitenoise generators, and it si very hard to sleep with it distracting me. I might be able to sleep thru it if it started after I slept, but not get to sleep with it going, so far. Once I'm tired enough I'm sure I can...
Anyway...I'm ramblingg...too tired. At lewast my teeth aren't bugging me right now.
Besides, if I can make this work with salvaged parts, it's more fun and better for my general goals of recycling/repurposing/reusing.
It's been ages (two decades?) since I worked with my ham radio skillzorz and made antennae, so this should be interesting to try. Possibly frustrating, but interesting.
I found one of the antenna mounting poles someone gave me a while back; somewhere here I also have a motor and contorl that goes with it that is supposed to be able to rotate a typical old TV roof antenna on it, from a dial in the house. If I can make that work again, I could use that to tweak the aim of the thing from inside the house for stuff that's purely horizontal aiming. So if I can find mulitple points along the same "horizon" for the antenna, I can simply rotate it on a vertical axis. To do *htat*, I would have to redo it's mounting so that it mounts on a post that sticks out from a vertical post at an angle equivalent to whatever is needed to point the antenna down below the horizon rather than upward at the sky.
It is now thundering and raining again; Loki woke my by crawling up on my bed in terror at the noise. Poor doggie is almost as bad as Bonnie was about that sort of thing; at least he doedsn't usually wet himself over it now. (and he doesn' bark or howl at such things like she sometimes would).
Now I can't sleep again because the window ac keeps freezing up from the high humidity and I keep having to turn it off for a few minutes to thaw. I thought my sensor mod fixed that but apparently not while it's actually raining. I also fixed some of the drainiage problems by peeling down the metal edging at the bottom of the "tray" of the unit, at the rear outisde edge, so the water can drain at that low point--before that it could be as much as a centimeter of water inside. I also tilted it more so it runs off faster to the outside, but this has caused the styrofaom inside it around the fan to shift, so the fan ticks on the foam and the water pools at the back edge of the foam in the fan cutout, so I will hvave to take the unit apart to fix that by punching a little hole at the base of the foam for drainage, and maybe "file" some of it off to prevent rubbing.
In the meantime it is very annoying as I can hear it over the boxfan and whitenoise generators, and it si very hard to sleep with it distracting me. I might be able to sleep thru it if it started after I slept, but not get to sleep with it going, so far. Once I'm tired enough I'm sure I can...
Anyway...I'm ramblingg...too tired. At lewast my teeth aren't bugging me right now.