Nate, Don't go there. Make both antennas either V/H or Slant.
Chuck On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 7:11 PM Chris Fabien <ch...@lakenetmi.com> wrote: > We recently ran into this exact situation with AF5X-HD radios. 3ft dishes > with H/V on one end and 45 Slant on the other end. I tried to switch the > H/V antenna to Slant, it looked at first glance like it had provision to do > both but the bolt holes didn't actually line up. However I did monitor > signal as I rotated the feed from H/V to Slant, there was no noticable > difference in signal or air rates. > > On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 7:56 PM, Mathew Howard <mhoward...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> It seems to me that you're always better off matching them, unless you >> have a good reason not to (like, say, if both antennas were already on the >> towers). >> >> On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 4:45 PM, <ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote: >> >>> I agree, just match them and then it doesn’t matter if the radio does >>> the fancy stuff or not. >>> >>> *From:* Mathew Howard >>> *Sent:* Thursday, July 5, 2018 3:29 PM >>> *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group >>> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Mimo Antenna Magic >>> >>> Yeah, that works with any wifi based radio, and Canopy, but I don't know >>> that it works with airFiber... it seems to me that I tried it once, and it >>> work very badly, but things could've changed since then. Why don't you just >>> use a V/H dish for the new one? If you want to use the 23dbi airfiber dish, >>> UBNT doesn't have a V/H equivalent, but there are plenty of other antennas >>> that will do the job fine. >>> >>> On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 11:39 AM, <ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote: >>> >>>> I wouldn't say there is no signal loss, but the white paper I read >>>> indicated that the circuit is able to extract information from both >>>> antennas and combine it in such a way that the SNR does not suffer. >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- From: Nate Burke >>>> Sent: Thursday, July 5, 2018 10:32 AM >>>> To: Animal Farm >>>> Subject: [AFMUG] Mimo Antenna Magic >>>> >>>> >>>> Do I remember reading somewhere (possibly on this list) that because of >>>> the way that MIMO Works, you can have a 45 slant antenna on one end and >>>> a V/H antenna on the other end and there is no signal loss? I want to >>>> upgrade a Link; Rocket with a 2' dish (V/H) to Powerbridge, to a set of >>>> AFx radios 2'(V/H) to AFx antenna. I can't easily change the 2' dish to >>>> dual slant without replacing it, since it's not a UBNT dish, but the AFx >>>> dish on the other end will be dual slant. Would that work? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> AF mailing list >>>> AF@af.afmug.com >>>> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >>>> >>>> -- >>>> AF mailing list >>>> AF@af.afmug.com >>>> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >>>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------ >>> -- >>> AF mailing list >>> AF@af.afmug.com >>> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >>> >>> >>> -- >>> AF mailing list >>> AF@af.afmug.com >>> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >>> >>> >> >> -- >> AF mailing list >> AF@af.afmug.com >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> >> > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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