To a point I agree. Look at how much nicer a 25dbi dish is over a reflector+patch radio, though. It keeps costs down (since everyone's doing the cheapo 25dbi instead of trying to get by without a bare SM). Gain is good.
Ubnt Nanostation copied the Canopy idea, mostly. They moved to dishes. Cambium had to "catch up" with the WISP world. My perspective may be different though - we almost never install bare Nanostations/Force 180/bare Canopy radios. We've always had to do reflectors/dishes. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 10:59 AM Mark Radabaugh <[email protected]> wrote: > It drives me crazy that Cambium continually spends more time staring at > what other companies have done and trying to copy them than looking > internally at what made their own products the best in class. > > The original Canopy case design was damn near perfect - inverted cup that > didn’t fill with water. Easy to remove and replace. Lots of mounting > options. > > And now we have lots of little parts to drop. Reminds me of exactly what > I hated about WiMax gear. > > Mark > > > On Feb 21, 2019, at 10:42 AM, Brian Sullivan <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I hate it too. Seems like they should have that design for ePMP and > something nicer for 450. =) > What would be nice is a door with a hinge, so there aren't multiple pieces > you can drop and ruin your day. > > On 2/20/2019 9:38 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote: > > Does everyone hate the 450b high gain cover with the cable gland as much > as we do? Not sure why they felt the need to do this on the high gain but > not the mid gain. > > > > I wish somebody (Chuck?) would sell an aftermarket conversion kit to make > it like the mid gain or the original Canopy SM. With a snap on cover, > water kept out by gravity, and readily accessible alignment tool port. > > > > There are other mechanical things I hate about the product, like the screw > in the back that you have to tighten ever so gingerly, and the 4 threaded > inserts that seem to have manufacturing quality issues like getting covered > over with plastic. Or the occasional feedtube that doesn't quite want to > latch into place. Or how much work it is to convert them to mount on the > left side of the pole. But the stupid cover with the cable gland is an > annoyance every single time. > > > > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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