Cambium came out with their own Stinger-like device for the 5 GHz 450 SMs called a CLIP. It was actually pretty good, except the initial production had a disc with the Cambium logo that was just held on with a squirt of glue and after a few months outside they would fall off.
The CLIP was not a Stinger clone, it was more like a horn. The inside of the plastic was sprayed with a conductive film. It did not use passive coupling or coax. From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Josh Luthman Sent: Friday, October 31, 2025 1:39 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] PMP100 I have to imagine a passive coupling isn't anywhere near as efficient as a soldered joint. Like wireless charging of ~20 watts versus USBC 240 watts. On Fri, Oct 31, 2025 at 12:17 PM Adam Moffett <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: I am nostalgic about Stingers. I wonder why more of the WISP radio vendors weren't on board with passively coupled antennae for subscribe units. I don't hate coax connections, and obviously we used them sometimes, but the seals around bulkhead connectors were sometimes a weak point for water intrusion. And weather proofing coax connections was added labor, added mess, and added chance for error. -Adam _____ From: AF <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > on behalf of Steve Jones <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2025 11:15 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] PMP100 the 2.4 stinger is how i found out wbmfg was a solid company. I didnt know shit back then. I put one on expecting massive numbers and just wasnt seeing much (turns out i was seeing what I was supposed to). I called about it, you almost beat me up through the phone trying to get the units back to get on your bench to figure out what was wrong with them and had already shipped replacements On Thu, Oct 30, 2025 at 9:08 PM Chuck McCown <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: One of my better ideas. From: AF [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ] On Behalf Of Steve Jones Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2025 7:31 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] PMP100 stingers were great On Thu, Oct 30, 2025 at 7:30 PM Ken Hohhof <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: Today we took down a long dead Cambium 9000APC from a tower. I looked at it and went “what is that”? The antenna was a KPP sector and I was expecting the AP to be attached to the back of the sector. I had forgotten that the FSK APs looked just like SMs. I guess partly because I mostly deployed Cyclones. I do remember the 900 MHz SMs with Chuck’s Stingers on top, connected with a coax cable. -- 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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