900 MHz airview with directional antenna

[aqk]

Is there a way I could use a small laptop with an airview hooked up to a small external antenna, either Yagi or dish, to see where the most powerful signal is coming from?
Or indeed any 900MHz signal?
Which Airview would I need, and could a directional antenna be plugged into it?

[WHT]

Both the AirView 2 (2.4 GHz0 and AirView 9 (900 MHz) are available in the external antenna version.

You can use a 2.4 GHz or 900 MHz Yagi antenna. A dish antenna would be too big, even a grid would be clumsy.

[aqk]

Thanx, WHT...
These Ubiquiti products are proving hard to find in Canada.
(But then, we Canadians are slowly reverting to 3rd world status - hewers of wood and drawers of water. Some Nortel shares, anyone?)
I may have to make a small trip to the USA.

An email sent to a Canadian "distributor" - Hutton wireless:
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from Tony King (aqk)
to toroxx@huttoncom.com
date 25 July 2009 20:02
subject I'd like an inexpensive 900MHz signal meter

I am interested in detecting and measuring 900MHz wifi signals in my rural neighbourhood.
There's a couple of 900 and 2400 internet providers, but they either uninterested or incapable of detecting where their antannas are, in relation to my house.
(yes, ground-comm is limited to copper dial-up here)

The Ubiquiti Airview-9EXT looks like a promising product, with an inexpensive Yagi, which I could run on a laptop, either with Windows (Vista or Win-7) or Linux.

Could you advise me on this? Which Yagi? The more directional, the better. You seem to have hundreds of 'em!
And cables to connect the Airview with the antenna.

Thanx.
-Tony Elgin, Quebec
450-nnn-nnnn www.chatvalley.net

PS- If there is an inexpensive Yagi that will do both 900 and 2400MHz (I doubt it), that would be even better than just the 900...
And please.... don't tell me this product is unavailable! I've searched several other Canadian sites; I'm beginning to think this Airview9 is vapourware...


Let's just see where this goes...

[opampca]

You can get it at UBNT.ca in Canada.
Just purchased one, they have in stock.
Also you can purchase a yagi antenna at Xagyl.com in Canada for 30$.
Good luck

[aqk]

Thanx for the info.
I've already purchased the airview, and with the antenna supplied with it, managed to get some info on local 900mhz hotspots.
I notice that Xagyl has a 613 area code- must be in Ottawa.

I'll attempt to build a pringles antenna (actually a Labatt-Blue 950ml antenna); if this does not work well, I'll look at purchasing a Yagi.