So far no lightning damage to any of our towers this year... of course I probably just jinxed myself by saying that ;P
On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 8:44 AM, Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote: > BTW, I have used an omni with 7 degree electrical downtilt at a grain leg > in a small town where I mainly wanted to cover a 1-2 mile radius and had a > lot of interference coming from T6 sites in all directions. > > https://www.tessco.com/products/displayProductInfo.do?sku=342385&eventPage=1 > > > -----Original Message----- From: George Skorup > Sent: Monday, June 08, 2015 8:22 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] storms > > Nope, just regular 360's. SS top and bottom. Timing via SyncPipes. No > other radios at either site had any issues (both Canopy and UBNT). I > have Cyclones on a number of other sites and they're all fine. A few > sites with 5750-360's always get random reboots during thunderstorms. > The logs say power-on reset. And only the Cyclones, no other radios. I > had one take a direct lightning strike a couple years ago. The antenna > was gone and the board was black. Sometimes you just get unlucky. > > I like LMG stuff, it's rugged, but yeah, any FSK stuff we have to put > up, I'm just going with connectorized radios and external antennas now. > Luckily we do have two APs and the same L-com/Hyperlink antennas LMG > uses on the Cyclones. I'll probably end up ripping them apart and > swapping the boards out. But I think we're going to be doing the same > thing you're doing, using 3.6 450 as a replacement for 2.4 because the > noise is just horrendous in all but the most extreme rural areas. We > have one 2.4 450 up at a quiet tower, but you can't get around the noise > at the SM side from the customer's 40MHz wide router, and the bigger > houses end up getting two of them. > > On 6/7/2015 10:33 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote: > >> We got some rain this morning, but all the bad stuff they were predicting >> for this afternoon went south. Apparently not far enough south to miss you. >> >> Are those the Cyclones with the built-in sync and surge protection? I >> had a lot of those get fried in storms. >> >> Actually after having my 2450-360 in Scarboro repaired a couple times, I >> went to just a connectorized AP and an omni, with a Polyphaser on the >> bottom of the omni. That might be your quickest fix unless you have spares. >> >> I've had Cyclones go flaky after a rainstorm and fix themselves once the >> sun came out, they seem susceptible to condensation in the RJ45 jacks. Most >> of the time they've been fried though. You could take a can of Dust-Off >> when you climb though, see if you get lucky. >> >> >> -----Original Message----- From: George Skorup >> Sent: Sunday, June 07, 2015 10:06 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [AFMUG] storms >> >> Anybody else have the lightning gods hate on you? Got two Cyclone >> 2450-360's down from the storms tonight. Early morning, yay! Not. Drove >> through some light hail and torrential rain, couldn't see past the hood. >> That was fun. >> >> One of the Cyclones says the default plug is inserted. I really wish we >> could just set the damn thing to ignore the default plug for times like >> this. But no. >> >> > >
