15dBi omni and ~15 to 20ft LMR400. Lightning blew the door off the power box on the ground, fried the mini PCI cards, but the RB600 still worked, just no data across the ethernet port.
The unit was hit in 09, was replaced and the antenna and coax have been in service the whole time. I never replaced it as I thought the hinky rx signal was just misreported, a 24Mbps link @ -88 shouldn't happen. Rx signal quality has finally gone down to match the actual numbers now, so I think something in the antenna was damaged. The problem I have here is quality cables. I've gone through around 50 that were replaced by Streakwave. They had a bad batch. Made me quite shy to replace what appears to be a good cable with one that might just quit like some others have. I made this one in late 08. ----- Original Message ----- From: Jaime Solorza To: Animal Farm Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2015 12:12 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Quick antenna question more info ...what kind of antenna? how much RF cable and what kind is it? what do connectors look like ? Jaime Solorza Wireless Systems Architect 915-861-1390 On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 11:09 AM, Glen Waldrop <[email protected]> wrote: I had a tower hit by lightning. The antenna appeared to survive, so I replaced electronics and let it go. The system reports low rx signal, 20dB worse than expected, but got the speeds I expected, so originally I thought the signal was just being misreported by the new equipment. It has degraded now, so we're working on it this afternoon. I'm replacing the antenna, but what are the odds that the coax is damaged as well? I've got spare, probably going to send it up with the climber anyway.
