Re: Amplifier, should I buy?

On 30 Jun 2006 05:02:25 -0700, "Skip - Working on the boat"
<SkipGundlach@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
<1151668945.177653.37150@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

Thank you, Jeff, for a very cogent answer to why one puts the
amplifier midway between the computer and the antenna, when the choice
of improved communication requires coax runs.

Actually at the antenna for best results, not midway.

The next time the subject comes up in the sailing groups (which, if
that's the solution, require that the amp go halfway, on the mast, but
not at the top, typically), I'll try to paraphrase :{))

Better to put the amp at the top, next to the antenna. Better yet to
put the client bridge at the top of the mast, with zero loss Ethernet
down the mast.

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