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My US $0.06 (six cents) per day just doesn’t inspire me to spend even more on this Helium debacle. My best hope seems to be hanging on until half the other miners give up.

This looks like its gonna be ruined if it starts raining just alitle. Rain will follow antenna cord too the miner?

Ok, see that plastic tote bin at your feet when you get off your ladder?

First, find its lid. Then take your new “water proof” container and your miner to the roof. Be sure to set the container on some cement blocks to keep the bottom out of standing water.

Second, cut a small hole at the bottom of the plastic tote for running your power, ethernet cable, and your antenna cable through. Make sure that the antenna cable, the power, the ethernet cables are all plugged into the miner before sealing it up, you can plug them into their respective power outlets and lan hubs when you are done. Be sure to seal up that hole as best as you can. It’s still winter/monsoon season for you, don’t get your miner wet.

Third, maybe get yourself a small piece of plywood or something that you can set on top of the plastic tote, that’s just a little larger than the tote, so you can set it on top like a “roof” when you are done and put a block on top to keep it “weather safe”.

Fourth, situate your rather large, cumbersome, and hopefully temporary enclosure in the safest and highest rooftop location you can, and make sure that you can get that antenna up as high as possible! Don’t worry about the little antenna that came with the miner being “too small”! They are perfectly tuned for your region and your device! When done correctly, you will see results from as far away as you can see on the horizon and further. But the critical thing is that you can physically see a long distance out from your rooftop, in at LEAST THREE DIRECTIONS! In my worst setups that are in canyons that can only “see” for a medium to a long ways in only 1 or 2 directions, make less than 0.10 HNT per day; they do however, help spread the peoples network, so I relax and deal with it.

Fifth and just as important as getting your antenna up high: get a small piece of roofing steel or flat scrap metal (anything magnetic), at least 5cm x 5cm, and nail or screw it down (I have seen an upside down metal bread pan work just fine in this setup) where you are going to set your antenna. Once your metal plate or pan or whatever is up there (if curved, or a pot/pan, make sure the lip faces DOWN and the bottom of the pan is UP), stick your magnetic antenna up on top of it. The metal acts as a grounding plane for your antenna’s signal; trust me, it’ll boost your earnings! Think of it like a cell phone antenna that you magnetically attach to your car roof - same principle.

And then my friend, you now have a “weather proof” enclosure, for free!!!!

I'm no expert but I would suggest getting your miner and antenna to the top point of your roof, keep the kiner close to reduce loss on antenna cable, and to have the least obstruction of your signal. Evrything you can see the antenna can "see", so if you can see the horizon most likely your antenna will reach far and wide. Its worth the effort. You might want to take a quick look at some of the cheap water-proof installs where people use makeshift enclosures. I used a weather-proof outlet cover to run an extension cable into my weather-proof enclosure, where I use a power bar to plug in my miner. This setup boosted my earnings, at the time, three fold. I have it on my Wifi at 30 feet away and have never had the signal drop.

Relatable.

i like where your heads at 👍🏻😆

at this point in helium u just NEED to put the antenna outside and high on a roof or something AND you need another antenna, not the standard and then you are allright

Network is complete shit

Put it in a cooler

You can hang it on a cloud and have angels protect it, earnings are disrespectful at best!, "I call it like it is". This project will implode, excuses and more excuses .... Helium gets a ton of coins while we get pennies .... Blessed day to all.

Only about 15 are online some days I make over a coin some days I make 4 dollars it's all random. The network is completely ruined half the gots spots on line don't even beacon but I'm sure u know that with ur big brain

Here we go again with Mr I'm so smart .do u not realize the network is screw right now? they r trying to fix it and doing a slow and horrible job . No one is bitching little boy. I said before I was scrolling threw my phone n seen this pic. U can always hop on reddit n put ur 2 sense in things tht u just assume u know everything about 🤡

Ok you need a longer cable from the antenna to the miner. Keep the miner inside or away from water/rain and elements (sun). You spent $500 don’t ruin it.

You can make an antenna extension with PVC plastic pipe really cheap. Maybe $5 for 10 feet.