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June 24, 2024. Overtaken by the weather!

Despite my best laid plans, I did not operate during Field Day this year! My garage shack was 94F at 1300 PDST and that was just too hot, so once again foiled by Climate Change.

Well not all bad and I think that band conditions were not so great despite the Hoopla about Cycle 25. (This is to offset my disappointment at not being able to fire up the KWM-1 on 20M for FD.)

But I did think this would have been the time to have a 2nd wireless router as I could have operated the Hermes Lite 2.0 remotely from inside my home (with AC) using a laptop. Probably need to do that. If I had a 50-foot chunk of CAT 6 cable that would have worked too. The wireless router needs to be further investigated -- summer is just starting.



Now this is where it gets interesting. Wireless routers go from around $50 to $1000. It is all about a 29A versus a 44DD. 

Recently in attempt to lower my cable bill, I made some changes to my Frontier Communications hardware. This change knocked $100 off of my bill. This now included an eero wireless router so that seems to be what they use. Every so often my laptop which is 15 feet away can't find the router so that also is a datapoint.

Lauren Sanchez's boyfriend sells a refurbished eero for $55. BUT don't get that one! It is too slow for the HL2. You need 1Gbps for the HL2 and this low cost one is only good for 550Mbps. This now moves you up to $90 for this eero.



A message here -- don't be fooled by the low price -- make sure what you are buying is indeed what is required. It's an eero costs only $55 but too slow!

Any readers have suggestions for a high speed 1Gbps router for my HL2?

73's
Pete N6QW
TYGNYB




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