On August 12, 2020 I set my new Wi-Fi DX record during a very strong tropospheric ducting propagation. I logged a 5 GHz Wi-Fi network from Northern Denmark at Dylewska Mountain (Dylewska Góra), Poland at a distance of 745 km. Unfortunately my stationary mast with antenna for Wi-Fi DXing has been damaged three months ago, so the DX-pedition was the only option.
Read more: https://fmdx.pl/2020/08/5ghz-wifi-dx-re ... nd-745-km/
I believe this is also a world distance record of Wi-Fi signal reception.
More information about Wi-Fi DXing:
https://fmdx.pl/wifi-dx/
https://fmdx.pl/wifi-dx-story/
https://fmdx.pl/the-best-of-wi-fi-dx/
https://fmdx.pl/ubiquiti-rocketdish-5g31-ac/
5 GHz Wi-Fi DX record @ 745 km
Re: 5 GHz Wi-Fi DX record @ 745 km
Wow!!!
Location: Sittingbourne, Kent JO01ji
SDRPlay, AirSpyMini, RTL dongles, ST311, Yamaha TX930. 5 ele yagi 20ft agl - 70 deg. FM5 - 80 deg, 5.1 Yagi 16ft agl - 120 degFM5 -180 deg. Vert 3-ele Moxon - 80 deg. Shielded magnetic loop 0.1-200 MHz - 10 ft agl
SDRPlay, AirSpyMini, RTL dongles, ST311, Yamaha TX930. 5 ele yagi 20ft agl - 70 deg. FM5 - 80 deg, 5.1 Yagi 16ft agl - 120 degFM5 -180 deg. Vert 3-ele Moxon - 80 deg. Shielded magnetic loop 0.1-200 MHz - 10 ft agl
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Paul Crankshaw
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Re: 5 GHz Wi-Fi DX record @ 745 km
I can't get my 5 GHz network in my shack without the use of a signal booster.
Re: 5 GHz Wi-Fi DX record @ 745 km
This 745 km record is not an indoor Wi-Fi network. Internet service providers use outdoor equipment installed on tall buildings, masts or chimneys. Look at some Mikrotik or Ubiquiti wireless devices.Paul Crankshaw wrote: ↑03 Oct 2020 14:19I can't get my 5 GHz network in my shack without the use of a signal booster.
As long as there is no obstruction to the horizon, the signal can propagate very well via tropo on GHz bands. I have seen much stronger signal levels via tropospheric ducting than in accordance to the free space loss calculations. It can act like a waveguide.
Out of over 20000 networks which I have logged at my QTH via tropospheric propgation, only ~30 of them were (presumably) indoor devices. This is something like 0.1%. I believe that my current record of an indoor 5 GHz network catch is 210 km, see the Indoor consumer Wi-Fi routers section: https://fmdx.pl/the-best-of-wi-fi-dx/
During last summer I built new 20m mast with a 105 cm dual-polarization dish antenna. Using this setup in September 2020 I received a network from Ukraine at a distance of 481 km. It is really super effective: https://fmdx.pl/ubiquiti-rocketdish-5g34/
You can follow my 5 GHz DXing results there: https://wifi.fmdx.pl/maps/
There are also daily logs, just switch between them in the menu on the left.
There's not much going on during wintertime on GHz bands though.