Longest shot we have made work is 4.7 with a kP dish. -73 but link tests are not that great. 83/73 and it is in 4x I'm planning on removing all our 3.65 450 gear and going with 2.4 450. The power is much better but migration from FSK 2.4 is a bigger pain
Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 21, 2014, at 12:14, Ken Hohhof via Af <[email protected]> wrote: > > We did a bare SM the other day 0.6 miles –58 and 8X in a 10 MHz channel, that > tells me we can go a lot farther without a dish, probably 1.5 miles or more. > Or are you talking about through trees? I have not been impressed with > performance through trees, even with a dish. But I’m not happy with –80 and > 4X, I don’t want to eat up all the capacity on such an expensive piece of > gear with just a few subs. And I don’t want customers calling every time > the leaves get wet or covered with snow. > > At some point I think we’ll see something similar to the Force100 but for now > it’s a dish or a connectorized SM with a panel. When I asked about a > Stinger/CLIP type of product, I was told the size at 2.4 or 3.65 GHz get too > big or else the gain isn’t worth it. > > From: CBB - Jay Fuller via Af > Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2014 11:58 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 3.65 pmp450 results - was Dear Cambium > > > We didn't get very far without a dish ; what are you seeing in terms of how > far you can get before you have a dish? > Are you using a dish with most, or is there a stinger available or something > "mid-term" ? > > Must be honest, we haven't tried the dish yet. Need to very soon as fall is > basically here... > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: David Milholen via Af > To: [email protected] > Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2014 11:34 AM > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Dear Cambium > > Chris, > We are rockin 3.65 450 AB channels replacing 90% of our 900 subs. Migration > is taking time due to cap X. > I took down our first 900AP which was our first aP900 installed last week. > > >> On 9/19/2014 4:34 PM, Christopher Tyler via Af wrote: >> I love the 450, 450 is awesome, but 90% of our subs are on 900 MHz, what do >> we do there, where is our upgrade path, what is the replacement for PMP100 >> in 900 MHz? >> We have no alternative to 900 for most of our customers where we are, too >> many hills and trees. We are still deploying 900 MHz radios in large >> quantities simply because we can't use anything else. Sure would be nice to >> have an easy way to configure those radios, we (Animal Farm) have only been >> asking for that feature for the last 8 years, not like they didn't know >> about it or have the time to figure it out. Now they are giving it to us, >> but only on a platform where we don't really need it yet. >> >> While I understand that PMP100 is somewhat antiquated, Cambium is still >> making money on it and will continue to make money on it, so why not give us >> at least some development beyond bug fixes at least until there is a 900 >> replacement? Why not a 450 in 900 MHz that's using the newer hardware but >> still only 2x modulation. We would literally buy thousands of them within >> the next year. >> > > -- > <Davidmvcf.jpg>
