While the 11 has issues and other vendors have far superior products - 
something was wrong if you faded in the rain at 5 miles. 

> On Apr 27, 2020, at 11:51 PM, Kurt Fankhauser <lists.wavel...@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> This is why I'm moving away from UBNT for 11ghz backhauls. They jacked the 
> price up on the stand alone units. Stock has been non-existent since 
> November/December which was the last time I was able to order stand alone 
> AF11 radios. Now a rumor they will never sell them again without their crappy 
> dish? Which BTW has steel bolts on that you know will turn to rust in a 
> couple years which really pisses me off. I know that other brands cost about 
> 2x-2.5x like Aviat but for the same licensed 80mhz channel you can get 
> 1.4gbps full duplex and I have never seen a AF11 radio actually push over 600 
> meg. Had a 5 mile and 6 mile AF11 link fade in the rain just as bad as a AF24 
> would on a 3-4 mile shot. I'm going all Aviat from here on out, 11, 18, 
> 80ghz. Their pricing is extremely competitive. Ken is awesome, always emails 
> me back within 30 minutes with any questions I have. Hell you can buy a 80ghz 
> link that is keyed up for 10gbps full duplex for $5200 out the door. Siklu's 
> promo for $4200 link will only do 2gbps which you can't even get from Baltic 
> because they are sold out.
> 
>> On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 5:14 PM Chuck Macenski <ch...@macenski.com> wrote:
>> Sorry, ignore that. I will forward this issue internally so that the AF11 is 
>> added. So many changes, so little time...
>> 
>>> On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 4:10 PM Chuck Macenski <ch...@macenski.com> wrote:
>>> https://www.ui.com/distributors/stock-locator/
>>> 
>>>> On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 3:33 PM Nate Burke <n...@blastcomm.com> wrote:
>>>> From Streakwave?  They're the one's that told me this morning they were 
>>>> never going to get them.  
>>>> 
>>>>> On 4/27/2020 3:30 PM, Cassidy B. Larson wrote:
>>>>> Streakwave was telling me that originally too, but it was during the 
>>>>> change of the model number of the standalone radio.  Now that the model 
>>>>> number for the stand alone radio is changed, price is a bit higher, but 
>>>>> they are once again available.  
>>>>> 
>>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Apr 27, 2020, at 14:26, Nate Burke <n...@blastcomm.com> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>  One distributor I talked to said they were being told by UBNT that 
>>>>>> their Single Radio order would never be fulfilled....
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On 4/27/2020 3:20 PM, Chuck Macenski wrote:
>>>>>>> That rumor is incorrect. The AF11 radio is available as a stand-alone 
>>>>>>> SKU. 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> https://store.ui.com/collections/operator-airfiber/products/af-11
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Chuck
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 3:11 PM Sean Heskett <af...@zirkel.us> wrote:
>>>>>>>> Why in the world would you buy crappy radios from a crappy company 
>>>>>>>> that likes to frivolously sue its customers and distributors?  They 
>>>>>>>> also seem to like to discontinue products at the drop of a hat.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Not gonna build my business model around a crappy company like that.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 2 cents
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> -Sean
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 1:05 PM Nate Burke <n...@blastcomm.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> I've heard a rumor that the only way to buy an AF11 radio now is in a 
>>>>>>>>> kit with Radio+Single Diplexer+Dish.  Single radios cannot be 
>>>>>>>>> purchased.  How can you keep spares of equipment if that's the case?
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> The price has gone up too.  We were getting bare radios for $585 last 
>>>>>>>>> year.  Now if you break the cost out of the Dishes and Diplexers from 
>>>>>>>>> the Kit, it's $680 for just the radio.  And places that have bare 
>>>>>>>>> radios 
>>>>>>>>> listed in their online stores (but have no stock) have a single radio 
>>>>>>>>> in 
>>>>>>>>> the $900 range.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Is UBNT Just trying to kill the 3rd party Antenna market?  Or were 
>>>>>>>>> they 
>>>>>>>>> having problems interfacing to other dishes  because of their unique 
>>>>>>>>> N 
>>>>>>>>> connector method?  The part that really annoys me is that I can't 
>>>>>>>>> just 
>>>>>>>>> have spare radios sitting on the shelf.
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