My first tower in 2003 had one of those Alvarion APs. Split system IDU/ODU with a 2.4 omni. Didn’t survive the first lightning storm, even though we had the coax lightning protectors. Ironic because one of the advantages of running IF frequency + DC power over coax to the ODU was supposed to be lightning survivability. We also had 6 x Trango 5830 APs and those survived.
We never hooked up any customers off the Alvarion system but I must have had at least one CPE radio because I remember driving around doing surveys from the van. At the time we were part of a groups of WISPs that could install customers off each others towers and split the revenue, one of the requirements was to have at least one of the Alvarion APs. From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Steve Jones Sent: Tuesday, December 3, 2024 2:37 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] our last canopy customer has cancelled Im not sure what he was happy about, Im not a junker, but apparently they had value The alvarion gear was really lucrative for him I remember. the housing was some valuable grade aluminum if the paint was off. I assume h ended up burning the paint off or something, but he drove all that direct to a smelter i remember him saying, and that wal like 150 miles away. that was like 6 or 700 radios. That pile hurt feelings because it wasnt til the end we had got those subscribers down to like 700 bucks a piece. That was a million dollar pile with the APs On Tue, Dec 3, 2024 at 2:06 PM Ken Hohhof <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: Aluminum cases? From: AF <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > On Behalf Of Steve Jones Sent: Tuesday, December 3, 2024 1:15 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] our last canopy customer has cancelled our 320s went out in a scrappers truck, hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of them. He was really happy On Tue, Dec 3, 2024 at 12:43 PM Dev <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: Anyone know what I’d get for a box of PMP 320’s? A big box :) On Dec 3, 2024, at 10:32 AM, Ken Hohhof <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: We should put them on eBay at full MSRP. From: AF <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > On Behalf Of CBB - Jay Fuller Sent: Tuesday, December 3, 2024 12:07 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] our last canopy customer has cancelled I think I have one new in a box too. Might donate it to a museum or something :) ----- Original Message ----- From: Steve Jones <mailto:[email protected]> To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, December 3, 2024 11:23 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] our last canopy customer has cancelled we still have like 3 900mhz customers across 2 APs that wont die and cant be otherwize converted. Those FSK radios are resilient Hell, we have one 2.4.fhss Alvarion BreezeAccessII in the air serving one customer 1.2mbps. We dont even have the tools to do the RG58 cable on those anymore. the customer is happy, and we told him 10 years ago we can only serve him til his radio or the AP die. they just wont die On Mon, Dec 2, 2024 at 11:33 AM Ken Hohhof <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: Yesterday going through spare SMs I found a NIB 900 MHz PMP100 SM. I suspect we have a few used ones around along with Yagis, but this one was still in the box, never deployed. Oh, well. From: AF <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > On Behalf Of CBB - Jay Fuller Sent: Monday, December 2, 2024 11:24 AM To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [AFMUG] our last canopy customer has cancelled been a great 20 year ride. our last 900 mhz pmp100 customer cancelled today. fiber has overbuilt most of our orig coverage area. they were customers since 2013. still on a 3 meg plan. -- AF mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com _____ -- AF mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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