There seems to be a lot of people complaining about getting stock of spare parts, and it has seemed to be on going for the last 6 months or so. Not something I would want to worry about.
On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 9:26 AM Nate Burke <[email protected]> wrote: > We have several, about 2 dozen in place for about 2 years, Have not had > any issues with them. > > I like the fact that they are cheap enough to just keep spares on a > shelf. But so far we have not had any problems. Most of our Paths were > running AF5 radios that we upgraded to AF11, so we didn't even have to > change the bracket on the tower, just swap the AF5 for the AF11. > > We do change the mount bolts that come with the Dish. They are packed > with bolt/washer/lockwasher which is almost impossible to get all lined up > when you drop the dish into the bracket. We change them with serrated > flange head bolts like are on the AF5 radios (order from McMaster) and get > 35mm long threads so it's easier to line up on the bracket. We also have > have to re-tap about 80% of the mount holes on the dish because the threads > from the factory are that bad. That's just now part of our ground setup to > run the tap through all the holes. > > They have an option for 2wire power, or POE, but no SFP unfortunately. > But any Ethernet issues I've had can be traced to a problem with the > cable. > > On 1/8/2020 9:08 AM, Paul McCall wrote: > > Anybody have more than a couple of these thing in place for while that can > comment on their Pros / Cons ? > > > > Needing to buy 8 licensed links and looking for reliable, but cost > effective > > > > Paul > > > > *Paul McCall, President * > > *Florida Broadband / PDMNet* > > *658 Old Dixie Highway* > > *Vero Beach, FL 32962* > > *772-564-6800* > > > > > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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