Yeah, the MTI dishes that Siklu uses (at least the ones that I've seen are MTI), have much nicer adjustments than the Bridgewave/Radiowaves dishes. Anything at 80ghz is a pain to aim, but it helps if one adjustment doesn't throw another one way off everytime you touch it.
On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 5:56 PM Jaime Solorza <[email protected]> wrote: > The Siklu adjustments on mounts are very accurate...the trick is to make > sure mount is solid on structure...I mean solid...the Bridgewave mount we > used three years ago were more difficult to align as bolt tightening moved > the dish. > Longest like was just under two miles > It was a large project at Fort Bliss...we took three months to install > hundreds of Siklu and Bridgewave PTP links, several hundred Cisco APs and > Ubiquiti 3.65 links ... > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2021, 3:44 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. >> >> -- >> AF mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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