[TriLUG] can't connect to wap when move it to alternate location

[Neil L. Little]

A microwave ovens operate around 900mhz.

Crap, they went out of business! Ok there was a place over on Yonkers 
road in Raleigh but I see now they went out of business last year.

73,
Neil, WA4AZL

Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Apr 2010, Neil L. Little wrote:
>
>> A good Marconii IFR (1200) service monitor can be found between 
>> $1-3k. There are also several places in the triangle where they may 
>> even be rented.
>
> where? (can't find anything with a quick look in google).
>
> The wap works fine with no antennas. I can associate upto about 10' 
> away but no further. As soon as I put on the rubber ducks, the wap 
> goes dead. I tried a 15dbi antenna, hoping to point it away from the 
> interference, but the wap was dead no matter where (az, el) I pointed 
> the antenna. The interference seems to be continuous. It's not the 
> business' portable phones (nominally 5.8GHz, but Pete Soper says one 
> of the links could be 2.54GHz), as the wap is dead with them off too.
>
> I don't know if the interference is in-band or out-of-band. If it's 
> in-band, it's not wifi, otherwise I'd detect it with netstumber. Maybe 
> it's microwave ovens. Will go look to see if there's a pizza place 
> next door. If it's out-of-band, maybe I can filter it out.
>
> If a spectrum analyser is available, I can tell if it's in- or out-of 
> band.
>
> Thanks Joe
>