[UFO Chicago] Wirelessness in Chicago

[Jack Beglinger]

> Heh, yes.  I'm obviously estimating a lot of things here.  One of them
> is the distance to Elliot's.  My initial gut estimate was 150 meters,
> which would be 67 dB.  After I got up and walked over to the liquor store for
> a soda (just past Elliot's) I thought maybe 200 m was a better estimate, but
> forgot to recalculate free space loss.

Check out the calculators at:
http://www.ydi.com/free-space-loss.php   86.1 dB
http://www.ydi.com/fresnel-zone.php    zone 8.2 ft : 60% mark 4.9 ft

Note: 200m = .125 miles.


jackb

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