This week we're planning on installing a satellite dish to enhance 3G signal in Lwemodde, an identical situation basically to the one detailed here: http://padmathilaka-wanigasekara.blogspot.com/2012/03/how-to-boost-3g-signal-using-used.html. This guy even has the same internet provider and as far as I can tell (haven't seen it yet, just heard reports from Mahadi) the same brand of satellite dish as us!
After that, while we have momentum and people on the roof and on ladders, I hope that we'll finish reflection. Everybody in the youth group seems to be happy that we've taken a break from thinking about it, but hopefully we can do the dish and the reflective wings all in one go and get people excited about maximizing internet and solar yield in the same day!
Lastly, our computers still seem to be traveling their way across Kenya. This week marks days 15, 16, 17, 18, and 19 from the ship date, so there is an off-chance that they could arrive by Friday. Keep your fingers crossed!
And lastly, our picture of the week:
After that, while we have momentum and people on the roof and on ladders, I hope that we'll finish reflection. Everybody in the youth group seems to be happy that we've taken a break from thinking about it, but hopefully we can do the dish and the reflective wings all in one go and get people excited about maximizing internet and solar yield in the same day!
Lastly, our computers still seem to be traveling their way across Kenya. This week marks days 15, 16, 17, 18, and 19 from the ship date, so there is an off-chance that they could arrive by Friday. Keep your fingers crossed!
And lastly, our picture of the week:
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| Miki doing some light reading on a tea break. Our manuals are being put to good use! |
Hi All
ReplyDeleteI am glad to see you all use this technique to improve signal. Hope if you can increase your dish size, you will get better signal. Hope you all have enjoy it
cheers
Padmathilaka
Hello Padmathilaka,
DeleteI actually had very mixed views about this idea. In theory it works but for our situation is was very fiddly. We had some uncertainty about which companies owned the towers we could directly see and no accurate way of tuning our dish to the correct angle/direction. In the end we used a more robust but less accurate way of increasing the signal strength. See this post: http://sunscaping.blogspot.com.tr/2014/01/internet-is-back.html