On a related topic to the connectorized parabolics for use on the B5c, almost all of the dishes are designed primarily for 5850 Mhz U-NII 3 because most of the PTP business has been so far
So if you’re wanting to set it up in 4900 (public safety) or 5150 MHz bands, there’s definitely more antenna match gain loss versus what people observe on the antennas in U-NII 3, since they weren’t specifically engineered for it. Most vendors to date have not posted performance specs for the lower bands since it’s a relatively new application for those dishes, you may want to get opinions from other users on what they’re seeing if you’re using those bands, and what to compensate on power with, some users have observed 2 to 4 dBi difference sometimes I’ve heard. On integrated devices radios like B5, this compensation automatically happens since we characterize or own dish to optimize EIRP with the FCC (all in the filings), but it’s up to the professional installer to do so with a connectorized dish. Cheers, Jaime Fink • Mimosa<http://www.mimosa.co/> • CPO & Co-Founder From: Af <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> on behalf of TJ Trout <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Reply-To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Wednesday, July 22, 2015 at 4:39 PM To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Mimosa B5c antenna choices They are vh. I would use the rd light weight and isobeam after using those and the rdac31. waste of money I think. On Jul 22, 2015 4:37 PM, "Josh Luthman" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: The AC are slant I think. If both sides are the same (both slant or both linear) the radio won't know. What's $1300? Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340<tel:937-552-2340> Direct: 937-552-2343<tel:937-552-2343> 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Jul 22, 2015 7:25 PM, "Craig House" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Has anyone tried to use a b5c on a UBNT 5G31AC dish? I have been using Commscope dishes but my supply is gone and I hate to buy a 1300.00 dish to do what a 300$ dish may accomplish? I know the connectors would have to be RPSMA to N type but otherwise any reason this would not work? Craig
