The picture on the website shows it on the back of the antenna, The
one's that we have it is vertical out the bottom of the antenna.
On 4/8/2015 4:38 PM, Glen Waldrop wrote:
I noticed the ethernet connector angle wasn't optimum on my 2.4GHz
sectors.
I haven't put any up, hadn't yet decided how I was going to do it. The
angle of the ethernet actually sets it up for water to drain into the
port if you use any downtilt.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Nate Burke" <[email protected]>
To: "Animal Farm" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2015 3:28 PM
Subject: [AFMUG] Heads up on IT Elite EPMP Antennas
We have used a couple of the IT Elite cPRO-SECTOR50018Dual sectors
for EPMP build-outs. They are like this
http://www.itelite.net/en/Katalog/Radio//PRO-SECTOR50018dual-HVBOX.html
but with an EPMP Bracket on the inside, and Ethernet/GPS connections
on the bottom of the antenna, and a magnet on top to stick the GPS
Puck. We though they were pretty cool, since the radio is enclosed
inside the antenna, you don't have to worry about Weatherproofing the
coax connections. Today I was out at a site troubleshooting Ethernet
issues on one of the sectors and found that the Ethernet bulkhead
connector at the bottom of the antenna was all burned up. I checked
the other sector that I had at the site and it was all burned as
well, but still functioning.
I'm not sure how the water got in there, my working theory is that
somehow it filled up the inside of the bulkhead grommet, but I don't
know if it came from inside the antenna, or somehow got around the
grommet on the outside. When I pulled the bulkhead out, there was no
sign of water on the outside of the bulkhead. The Bulkhead is at the
highest point on the cable, so there is no way that water could have
run inside the cable into the bulkhead.
For the other ITElite sectors I have deployed, I'm probably going to
preemptively go pull out the bulkhead, and run the cable directly
into the radio.
Nate
