Is it LMR400 between the sectors and the radio gear? 5.6db sounds like a lot to me.
I'd definitely ask Purewave. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 4:10 PM, Jay Weekley <[email protected]> wrote: > We are going to experiment with some Purewave equipment that we have had > for a while and one of our possible locations is on a water tank which > means some of the LMR-400 to the sectors may be quite long. The loss > calculator provided by Purewave shows that the loss on 60 feet of coax is > 5.6 dB with Cable Run Efficiency of 31.6 %. Is this acceptable? I > haven't worked with coax much but that seems like that's a big performance > hit considering the loss on 6 feet is .7 dB and a cable run efficiency of > 89.1 %. What is the performance hit the actual signal strength at the on > the actual wireless link? >
