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
>
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