08-02-2009, 01:09 AM
Wow, I never got my notification that there were replies. Sorry for the delay!
We only have to go about 400' to get a signal. We're kind of in a valley and there are a lot of trees. About 50' from the house, we can get 2 bars in a couple of small areas.
Ooh, if I put up a Yagi for this somehow, I bet I can rig it for our ham radios, too! Or am I just dreaming? I wouldn't want to do something that would only enable the phone to work on one floor-I want the security of knowing that if there's an emergency, I can communicate anywhere on the property(or as close to it as possible).
Ha ha. Nope, actually it's very tiny dress. I don't think it could hold more than a couple of 1 x 6s.
The chimney(which actually 'straddles' inside and outside walls-will have stone showing inside and out, all the way from the first floor to the second floor ceiling) is mostly for a pellet stove. We have electric forced fan heat in walls and floors(no ducts)as a backup but shouldn't need it... the whole house is on a generator that will run everything if we lose power.
There isn't any open wi-fi in our area currently(brought the Powerbook over to check)and I'm not 100% sure we'll have our own... since the place is Ethernet all over the place and it's so solid(plus I want computers on all 3 floors), I'm not sure I'm excited about it.
Great info for me to pore over, thanks! Getting on the roof won't be a problem, in fact, we have to go up and put our TV antenna there anyway. I'd really love to just put up one big device for TV, ham(that's a luxury, not a necessity-our handhelds do well with the antennas we have), AND cell.
Thanks!
rfd
We only have to go about 400' to get a signal. We're kind of in a valley and there are a lot of trees. About 50' from the house, we can get 2 bars in a couple of small areas.
Ooh, if I put up a Yagi for this somehow, I bet I can rig it for our ham radios, too! Or am I just dreaming? I wouldn't want to do something that would only enable the phone to work on one floor-I want the security of knowing that if there's an emergency, I can communicate anywhere on the property(or as close to it as possible).
Ha ha. Nope, actually it's very tiny dress. I don't think it could hold more than a couple of 1 x 6s.
The chimney(which actually 'straddles' inside and outside walls-will have stone showing inside and out, all the way from the first floor to the second floor ceiling) is mostly for a pellet stove. We have electric forced fan heat in walls and floors(no ducts)as a backup but shouldn't need it... the whole house is on a generator that will run everything if we lose power.
There isn't any open wi-fi in our area currently(brought the Powerbook over to check)and I'm not 100% sure we'll have our own... since the place is Ethernet all over the place and it's so solid(plus I want computers on all 3 floors), I'm not sure I'm excited about it.
Great info for me to pore over, thanks! Getting on the roof won't be a problem, in fact, we have to go up and put our TV antenna there anyway. I'd really love to just put up one big device for TV, ham(that's a luxury, not a necessity-our handhelds do well with the antennas we have), AND cell.
Thanks!
rfd