Thanks BoRRoZ! Finally got the gateway and outdoor antenna permanently installed so the antenna experts here may advise about how effective the shield on the rear of my TV’s array antenna will be for blocking LoRa to my new 3dBi antenna? Should I lower the array below my LoRa antenna for better omni-directional?
Does this antenna/gateway combo work? Well yes, I have received packets from just over 15km but from high ground, it is not totally flat around my house. I used my home made 1/4 wave ground plane from the @lex_ph2lb design on a Pro-Mini node with RFM95W radio but didn’t hang around long enough to try other antennas on my node. I have however seen over 5km with one of those tiny 50mm long sma antennas so next testing is to see how close to the ground I can reliably place my node without attenuating too much RF energy.
Garry