just as I was downloading the above, and planning a session getting the relay working, my pal comes round and says his brother has a dongle device that is a receiver as well. It is highly directional.
He uses it on his boat, so Zoomed off to said ship which is moored at the local marina and took charge of a PheeNet Tech device and CD.
Loaded the Vista soft, but there things started to go wrong. (no real surprise.) It never presented itself as an installed program, and the danger of Windows claiming the device seemed to be becoming a reality.
Indeed, the only evidence I can find of it being on the computer at all is in the uninstall section. Uninstalled it once and tried again, this time puting the USB plug in on an unidentified command. (might have been the OS or the install soft. Just nothing to say.)
However, now it loaded as a name I'd not heard of and seems to be going quite well. Yes, I did leave the thing unplugged until the soft was in, but it didn't follow the pdf with a reboot etc., indeed, it never asked where the files should be put and other small items as per the pdf.
I hate when that happens.
Although the number of bars is not improved, the general performance is undoubtedly better. One will persevere on the morrow.
The above testing software would be a very definite boon to assessing the benefits, but I've yet to make it run. Just sits there with empty blocks, and talks of GPS. Will look at that on the morrow as well.