I don't think you can use a 3' antenna with the stratalink24 in FCC land
due to total eirp limits... Just Canada or other places.
On Oct 15, 2015 2:12 PM, "Adam Moffett" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Sync is a good feature, but personally, given the low EIRP limit at 24ghz
> I think the option for higher antenna gain is a bigger deal. I also
> suspect that high perf dishes would allow for channel re-use without sync.
>
> I really can't do 24ghz more than 3 miles in any case, so it's pretty rare
> that we're using any of these things to start with. So I don't have as
> much experience with that as some of you do, and maybe my opinion is not
> well informed.
>
> On 10/15/2015 4:34 PM, George Skorup wrote:
>
> Exalt is also doing their ExtendAir G2 in 24GHz U/L now. Which is probably
> about the same pricing as the Stratalink, although ~half the speed being
> that it's only 256QAM. Neither of these seem reasonable to me when the AF24
> exists. Yeah, the AF24 uses the whole 200MHz, but at least you can sync
> them.
>
> On 10/15/2015 1:44 PM, Bill Prince wrote:
>
> Yes. Midwest maximum rain rates are way up there.
>
> Looking back in our records, our AF24 (not HD) have lost ~~ 3 dBm during
> our last real rain event last December. These are 2.25 mile links.
>
> bp
> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
>
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> On 10/15/2015 11:38 AM, Eric Kuhnke wrote:
>
> The funny thing about the pacific northwest is that it's only ITU rain
> zone D. We get constant rain and drizzle and grey skies that causes
> acceptable fades (like, an 18 GHz link that normally sites at -37 with no
> rain will hang out at -49 for days at a time), but major downpour events
> are relatively rare. It's the mm/hour...
>
> If I recall correctly some locations that are less famously rainy such as
> Baltimore or Chicago actually have more frequent high mm/hour rain events
> than Seattle. Thus a link designed to be at max capacity for five nines
> will be shorter in Chicago than in Portland or Seattle.
>
>
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> On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 11:36 AM, Bill Prince <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Agreed for the NW where you are. We're in the SF bay area, and we get
>> "rain", but not like you guys. For the last 4 years we haven't even gotten
>> that.
>>
>> I know of a couple situations that are getting almost 10 miles on a
>> AF24HD.
>>
>> bp
>> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
>>
>> On 10/15/2015 11:31 AM, Eric Kuhnke wrote:
>>
>>> 5.5 miles is probably asking too much, I would use it at a max of 5-6 km
>>> in a Pacific Northwest rain zone.
>>>
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