Way to go Darren for catching the mistake!!!
Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 10:58 AM, Darren Shea <[email protected]> wrote: > Aaron, > That's great news - thanks for the quick response! > > -- Darren > > -----Original Message----- > From: Aaron Schneider [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2015 9:38 AM > To: [email protected]; Darren Shea > Subject: RE: [AFMUG] Canopy 14.1.1 > > Well, I must correct myself! While there is an integrated patch antenna, > its gain is part of the 25dBi total gain, not in addition to, so you are > correct, we are off by 9-10 dB and are too low. This explains the > questions raised at Wispapalooza and what you are seeing here. The good > news is that this is fixable via SW and we will obviously get this fixed > ASAP. I'll let you know when we have an Open Beta load for you to use, it > should be within a day or so here, and we will expedite a formal released > load fixing this. > > Regards, > -Aaron > > -----Original Message----- > From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Aaron Schneider > Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2015 5:19 PM > To: Darren Shea; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Canopy 14.1.1 > > Darren - > > We'll take a look but the external gain for 450D is locked because that is > the property of the HW with the attached dish and radome. This is not > changeable intentionally. > > The internal HW of the 450d is actually an integrated 450SM in a new > housing, so there actually is some internal gain via the 9dBi patch > antenna, so that would account for the difference. So TxPower + internal > patch gain + external dish gain <= EIRP would mean -4 is our max TxPower > for 5.4 FCC to stay <= 30 dB EIRP. > > However, we will take a look - there was some feedback at Wispapalooza > that some customers were having issues installing these in 5.4G band, but > the tx power should be correct. > > Regards, > -Aaron > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Darren Shea [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2015 3:58 PM > To: [email protected] > Cc: Matt Mangriotis; Aaron Schneider > Subject: RE: [AFMUG] Canopy 14.1.1 > > Aaron, > I had a question about a change Cambium implemented on the 450D > radios, although it's not new to 14.1.1 (I think it started in 13.4): the > Power Control section on the Configuration -> Radio, External Gain setting > is no longer adjustable, and is locked in at 25dB. OK, but the radio seems > to be thinking it's got some sort of additional gain, because it won't > transmit higher than -5dB (reported in Link Status). Shouldn't the EIRP in > the DFS band be 30dB, so it could transmit as high as 5 dB? This seems to > be causing a major connectivity issue in the 5.4 band, but not in the 5.7 > band, where transmit power is reported as anywhere from 16 to 22dB on the > same SM to the same test AP. > > Why the disparity? Is there any hope for using 5.4 GHz frequencies on a > 450D SM to a tower you could not hit with a football? > > > >
