Re: [AFMUG] SuperStinger full of water/ice

[Bill Prince]

We had an early version of a 5GHz stinger once upon a time that stopped working. When we brought it down, an ant colony had built a nest inside. Sure messed up the RF performance. bp <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> On 12/1/2018 12:27 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote: I keep forgetting that I still have some old 2.4 FSK in my network, but I thought all the SuperStingers were gone.  I sent a tech out to a repair after out early winter storm, and luckily he remembered about the first gen SuperStingers filling up with water and then freezing.  You know something is wrong when the SuperStinger weighs about 5 times what it should.  Or if above freezing, when it makes a sloshing sound when you shake it.   Hey Chuck, are these still under warranty?   Just kidding.  All my 2.4 HPOL is long gone, so other than aesthetics, there’s no reason not to just use a dish.  Or in this case, we found a new (non super) Stinger on the shelf and the expedient thing was to pop one of those on the SM.   I seem to remember you changed the seam in the plastic from the edge to the back to solve the water intrusion?  It seemed like temperature changes caused the moisture to actually get sucked into the crack in the top and get trapped inside.  I guess we could have drilled a drain hole in the bottom, but if we’re doing a proactive truck roll, might as well just switch to something else.  Most places we have replaced 2.4 GHz with 3.65 GHz but typically as overlay sectors so there is still some legacy 2.4.  Damn, I remember when Canopy FSK was the hot new stuff we used to replace smartBridges.  Now it’s the “old busted hotness” as J would say in Men In Black.

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