Kurt, that is amazing news!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -----Original Message----- From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Matt Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2019 4:32 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 450SMs
That is good news. Hope its not that screwed together half aluminum case though. On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 3:44 PM Kurt Fankhauser <lists.wavel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Can not believe nobody else has chimed in with the good news here. Talked to > Matt at the Cambium Booth last week as Wispalooza, he said spring 2020 they > will be releasing the old form factor SM again (5ghz only) with the new 450b > guts inside. He also said there will not be a speedcap. sounded like > $250/'ish price range. I can not tell you how amazing this was to hear as we > have literally over 500-700 reflectors out that is so convenient to be able > to just swap the bare SM and not have to do re-alignments. > > On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 6:24 PM Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> wrote: >> >> Maybe they just need to go with something like TwistPort and let 3rd party >> manufacturers sell dishes. Oh, right, regulatory approvals. Nonethless, I >> suspect that may be where they are headed with the connectorized SM. >> >> >> >> >> >> From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Adam Moffett >> Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 5:13 PM >> To: af@af.afmug.com >> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 450SMs >> >> >> >> If they sold me a full 2' dish at 28dbi then I could definitely find places >> to use that. >> >> >> >> On 10/23/2019 5:52 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote: >> >> Yeah, a one year delay is a pretty big oops, but it’s not really a solution >> to the problem anyway. Except that 450b gets rid of the hated speed caps >> and also enables 5.1 GHz sub band. I’m not thrilled about SMA connectors on >> the top, KPP included a nice mounting post for the current style >> connectorized SM, I’ll have to see if it still works with the new SM. >> >> >> >> What they probably need is a slightly larger and also deeper parabolic dish, >> get the gain back to 25 dBi, and better sidelobe performance. Or get to the >> bottom of why the 450d/450b style dish seems so much more susceptible to >> reflection and multipath degradation. I think Cambium expected higher xmt >> power would compensate for lower antenna gain, but that does nothing for >> downstream. >> >> >> >> I heard a rumor they were redesigning or eliminating the cable gland? Was >> that mentioned at Wispapalooza? >> >> >> >> >> >> From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Sean Heskett >> Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 2:30 PM >> To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> >> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 450SMs >> >> >> >> They are coming out with a 450b connectorized but at wispapalooza >> they said it was delayed until March 2020 (it was supposed to ship >> March of 2019) >> >> >> >> -Sean >> >> >> >> >> >> On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 9:04 AM Adam Moffett <dmmoff...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Okay I haven't paid a lot of attention to PMP450 since I've been in a >> Telrad shop for a few years. It looks like the old style SM was >> discontinued. >> >> The Old SM + Reflector was said to have 25dbi of gain. >> >> The replacement 450b "high gain" integrated dish is 22dbi. >> >> Are you kidding me? Cambium, why you takin' my db's away bro? >> >> >> >> -- >> 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
