Use LinkPlanner and manually punch in the trees.  If you're shooting
through them, get higher or find another way.

Josh Luthman
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On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 9:34 PM Brian Webster <[email protected]>
wrote:

> With tower coverage and radio mobile, path calculations and results are
> going to vary greatly by the amount of reliability you have set in the
> configuration. What you use for spot mode for ptmp is a lot different than
> if you want 99% or more uptime. Each decimal place in radio mobile wants
> another 10 dB signal to meet the reliability. This is a good tool to
> determine the path profile but you really want to use some other path calc
> tool that is designed for PTP links so that you get a reliable uptime
> calculation result. The Longley Rice propagation model used for Radio
> Mobile is not that good to reliability calculations in PTP paths. It’s
> usually conservative unless you have your availability numbers set too low
> say at 70 or 80%.
>
>
>
> Long story short Kurt, find a path calc tool to run the signal numbers now
> that you have established you have a path. As Adam has said I would not be
> overly concerned with those trees in the path as much as having the right
> tool to show your predicted signal. A good path calc tool for PTPT gives
> you almost the exact numbers for signal you should have for alignment.
> Radio Mobile and by default tower coverage will not calculate the paths the
> same way.
>
>
>
> Thank You,
>
> Brian Webster
>
> www.wirelessmapping.com
>
> www.Broadband-Mapping.com
>
>
>
> *From:* AF [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Kurt Fankhauser
> *Sent:* Thursday, December 06, 2018 4:32 PM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] 25 mile shot AF5XHD NLOS ???
>
>
>
> after looking at another tower i think i can go with the 3 foot dishes
> now. that puts me at -57 and tower coverage is supposed to be factoring in
> a little bit of tree fade so even if i fade 10db more im still at -67 which
> should be enough i would think.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 4:12 PM Mathew Howard <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> So, to achieve 150Mbps each way, you would need 300Mbps aggregate with an
> AF5xHD, which means that you're going to need a minimum of a 40mhz channel
> at 8X (256QAM). to get 8X, you can use a maximum of 22dbm TX power, which
> by my calculations, would give you a signal of roughly -58 with 2' dishes -
> an AF5xHD is supposed to be able to do 8x at -65 on a 40mhz channel, so
> assuming no noise and clear LOS, that'd work just fine and give you a few
> db to spare. Realistically, you probably aren't going to get 8X on that
> link, so you'd need to bump it up to a 50mhz channel and hope 6X works.
> That lets you bump the TX power up a couple more db, and now you only need
> a -69 to get the desired capacity, which starts to look a lot more
> promising... but those trees could easily cost you more than 10db, and we
> don't know what kind of noise you're going to be dealing with. Going to 3'
> dishes on both ends should gain you 8db, but if you can't use 3' dishes,
> that doesn't really matter. My guess is that those trees are going to be
> cutting the signal down more than what 3' dishes would gain, but I don't
> believe that trees in towercoverage are accurate enough to really try to
> predict that.
>
>
>
> Of course if you don't mind burning up the entire 5.8ghz band, you could
> use an 80mhz (or even 100mhz) channel, and then you'd only need 4X to get
> that kind of bandwidth, which would let you go up to 29dbm TX power, and
> you'd only need a signal of -71, which would mean you could afford to lose
> around 20db to the trees...
>
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 2:40 PM Adam Moffett <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I got over 300mbps at 16.7 miles with 3' dishes on the AF5XHD.
> The catch is you need a large channel for these high data rates and you
> have to have a solid SNR across the whole channel.  That's no guarantee.
>
> I don't think those intermittent trees in the bottom half of the Freznel
> zone are as big of a problem as people are making out.  The bigger problem
> I see is the 2' dishes.  I would not bet the farm on getting 150mbps out of
> it.
>
> -Adam
>
> On 12/6/2018 2:48 PM, Kurt Fankhauser wrote:
>
> Josh, who did you do that link for?
>
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 2:38 PM Josh Luthman <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> Not just no but hell no.  150 megs isn't going to happen.  I wouldn't even
> count on it associating.
>
>
>
> I did a 15 mile shot and I was a lot higher on both sides maybe half an
> hour from where you're at.
>
>
>
> Josh Luthman
> Office: 937-552-2340
> Direct: 937-552-2343
> 1100 Wayne St
> Suite 1337
> Troy, OH 45373
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 2:20 PM Kurt Fankhauser <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> found another site with better looking profile, 100 foot higher elevation
> on one of the ends. (see attached)
>
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 2:04 PM Mathew Howard <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> ubnt doesn't make a product that's going to work good for that
> situation... The only thing that might work better than AF5XHD for that is
> going to be AF-2X, or maybe AF-3X, but the chances of getting 150mbps out
> of either of those is pretty slim.
>
>
>
> Now, as far as if AF5XHD's with 2' dishes will work... who knows, it
> depends on how much the trees actually block it, which probably isn't
> really possible to accurately predict. You're pretty much going to have to
> try it to know what it will do, but personally, I wouldn't do it unless I
> really had to.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 12:45 PM Timothy Steele <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> everything about that email just wants to make me ask why-why oh why..
>
>
>
>
>
> I would use https://link.ubnt.com/ to find the product that would work
> best
>
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 1:31 PM Kurt Fankhauser <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> Trying to do a NLOS shot with AF5XHD's thats 25 miles (see attached topo).
> Only have done 10-12 mile shots before that are NLOS. I have had good
> success doing the 10 mile shots skimming tree tops but not sure if the
> added distance is going to drastically change that. According to
> TowerCoverage this link is showing it will work. Can't use 3 foot dishes
> due to wind loading only able to use 2 footers. Anyone think this should
> work? Only need about 150mbps each way.
>
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