Tag: helium basic course

  • Helium 101: Cable Loss and EIRP.

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    Got ques­tions about what kind of cable you should use to con­nect your Heli­um hotspot to your anten­na? Want a Heli­um-spe­cif­ic cable loss table? You’re not alone! Lots of folks want to know if they should use LMR 240 or 400 or 900, or how long it can be, or if they should use the cable…

  • Shield Your Helium Hotspot From Powerful Lightning Strikes

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    How do you attach a light­ning arrestor to your Heli­um hotspot anten­na? What does one look like? Is it dangerous? Let’s start with a pic­ture. This will answer 90% of your questions. You can (and accord­ing to knowl­edgable ham radio oper­a­tors) SHOULD con­nect the light­ning arrestor at the oth­er end of the cable, down by…

  • The Top 5 Mistakes to Avoid with Your Helium Hotspot

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    So you just found out about Heli­um and want to crush it with your hotspot deploy­ment? First, remem­ber WUPU. That stands for Wide-Unique-Prove­able-Use­ful cov­er­age. WUPU is what makes for a reli­ably high earn­ing hotspot. Here are the top 5 things that go against WUPU. Let’s start with the worst thing: 1 — Overcrowding Putting your hotspot…

  • What’s The Best Antenna For Your Helium Hotspot?

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    Here is a step by step method for under­stand­ing how to choose the best anten­na for your hotspot place­ment. Each place­ment demands a well matched anten­na in order to pro­vide val­ue to the Heli­um Net­work and con­se­quent­ly earn the most HNT pos­si­ble for that loca­tion. Do NOT, by the way, try to get the giant…

  • How Much HNT Will My Hotspot Earn?

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    One of the most fre­quent­ly asked ques­tions in all of the Heli­um space is: “How much will I earn?”  Here’s how to get to a rea­son­ably accu­rate pre­dic­tion for your loca­tion. We’ll start with num­bers, do some more num­bers, do a lit­tle edu­cat­ed guess­ing, and end up with a con­ser­v­a­tive esti­mate of how much a giv­en…

  • A Rough Guide To Helium Hotspot Placement

    This is writ­ten for folks curi­ous about opti­miz­ing a Heli­um Hotspot placement.  Most start with their anten­na, which is (almost com­plete­ly) the wrong approach for max­i­miz­ing earn­ings. The only way you could make a less effi­cient improve­ment at the start is to focus on what cables to buy.  There are four fun­da­men­tal aspects of an opti­mal…