Atmospheric absorption peaks in 24GHz & 60GHz. 80GHz is typically much less
affected 60GHz. See attached chart for reference.

On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 5:44 PM Nate Burke <[email protected]> wrote:

> One of our distributors is trying to push us into an 80ghz link for a
> 1.7 mile hop.  Siklu says that 2' dishes on each side will have no rain
> problems in our Rain zone 'K'.  I have trouble believing that. Our AF24
> link that is in place now Fades during rain events.  An AF60 link we
> have at 0.4 miles also fades.  What are real world experiences with 80ghz?
>
> How hard is it to align 80ghz dishes, especially at that distance? We
> once had to align a 24ghz 3' Trango dish that had no fine adjustments,
> and it took almost 2 hours because the signal would change with every
> turn of the UBolt.  Same with the AF60 radio, but that mount bracket is
> a pile of garbage anyway.  I see they sell a fine adjustment bracket for
> the AF60 now.
>
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