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Can you convert a wireless station to a hard wired one ?
Posted: Mon 05 Dec 2011 4:01 pm
by andy_burnton
Getting regular dropout of comms to sensors due to location I am forced to use for base station and sensors. Is it possible to convert these to hard wired ?
Andy
Re: Can you convert a wireless station to a hard wired one ?
Posted: Mon 05 Dec 2011 4:53 pm
by steve
I am pretty sure I have seen someone do something very close to hard wiring with a Davis wireless station by wrapping one end of a wire around the transmitter antenna and the other around the receiver antenna. Harder to do with Fine Offset stations, I guess, as their antennae are internal.
Re: Can you convert a wireless station to a hard wired one ?
Posted: Mon 05 Dec 2011 6:44 pm
by 41south
Now that's showing a bit of ingenuity
You could build a small Jpole/dipole style antenna on a piece of circuit board and place it next to the transmitter and another at the receiver (with coax in between), but my guess is that any signal would probably be fully absorbed in the wire by the time it got from one to the other.
I've seen a couple of posts about modifying the internal antennas, not sure if it would be possible (or practical) to bring them external to a higher gain antenna to improve your distance?