"Corn shooting up" made me think of this.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-do-farmers-make-money-on-corn-by-charging-to-shoot-it-from-a-cannon-11568129784
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On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 12:29 PM Ken Hohhof <khoh...@kwom.com> wrote:
> Flat fields are us.
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> We got some rain and the corn is shooting up like crazy, so we’re in the
> midst of this right now. Sometimes you can tell from the signal graph that
> it will go away in a few days, but moving the antenna just means the
> problem comes back in 1-2 weeks. Until the corn tassels out. Happens with
> soybeans too but they don’t grow a foot in a week. And with beans there
> comes a day in fall when suddenly they all turn yellow and then brown and
> dry up seemingly overnight.
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> *From:* AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> *On Behalf Of *Bill Prince
> *Sent:* Saturday, June 29, 2024 2:11 PM
> *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Multipath mitigation
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> The dual slant is good for an urban environment where most of the surfaces
> are horizontal or vertical. Not so much in a rural environment, but a flat
> field comes close.
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> bp
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> On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 11:53 AM Ken Hohhof <khoh...@kwom.com> wrote:
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> Do I remember something about dual slant polarization was supposed to help
> with multipath? I haven’t observed that to be the case.
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> *From:* AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> *On Behalf Of *ch...@go-mtc.com
> *Sent:* Saturday, June 29, 2024 1:37 PM
> *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Multipath mitigation
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> Spacial or frequency diverse systems need two receivers. I don’t know of
> any solution that just uses one receiver. If you put up two antennas and
> phase them together you will just create a new pattern with higher gain in
> one direction and new nulls. So it will still fade. You need two SMs and
> a way to select the best one. Or maybe just go in and swap the connection
> between them remotely at the right time of year. If there was an STP that
> would check link quality rather than speed that could be a thing.
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> Best Regards,
> Chuck McCown
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> *From:* Steve Jones
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> *Sent:* Saturday, June 29, 2024 11:09 AM
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> *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
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> *Subject:* [AFMUG] Multipath mitigation
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> Is there an SM side solution for this? We have a handful of customers we
> have to go out twice a year to move their equipment up 5 feet or down 5
> feet. In the fall, I love to point out they just harvested the field across
> the road, didnt they. theyre always "how did you know"
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> I could take the loss hit in many of these cases to do a splitter and
> diverse antennas, but would that harm or hurt more?
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> Some of them we just have 2 radios installed a spring and fall radio, we
> just have them swap which ones plugged in. 2 450b SMs leaves a lot of
> budget for something that doesnt require touching
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> One of you geeks has to have come up with a solution over the years other
> than truck rolls.
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