I’ll second that. RF is witchcraft. Rory
From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Josh Luthman Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2015 11:06 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] NLOS, 5ghz, Foliage, and Rain Powerbridge has a wider beamwidth and picks up from "around the trees". I've seen this only at a customer site with a Beam vs Nanostation. Roughly the same signal but the Beam was absolutely worthless compared to the Nanostation. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 1:02 PM, Nate Burke <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Is it inherent to the spectrum, or will different radios cope with it differently? I think I remember that being one of the claims to fame of the PTP600, was that it handled multipath better. On 12/23/2015 11:59 AM, Chuck McCown wrote: Trees were eating up multi path that is now harming your signal. -----Original Message----- From: Nate Burke Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2015 10:58 AM To: Animal Farm Subject: [AFMUG] NLOS, 5ghz, Foliage, and Rain I have a PTP NLOS link which is working the opposite of what I expect, and I'm having trouble understanding it. It is a NLOS link in 5ghz (2.5 mile link, Urban area, <1/8 Mile is NLOS). UBNT, 2' dish to a Powerbridge. Here's the part I can't figure out. Over the summer, when the trees are leafed in, the link is rock solid, no signal change, No modulation change. Rain, Shine, Night, Day, stays exactly the same. However, over the winter, when there are no leaves, it loses signal, and the signal and modulation fluctuate dramatically. Rain will drop the link out. I have tried re-alignment after the foliage has dropped off, and was not able to gain signal, or change the pattern at all. I'm guessing it must be some sort of Multi-path/reflection that the foliage is blocking. Would a different radio handle this better than the UBNT? Like if I changed it to EPMP, AF5x, or PTP600 would it act differently? Or is there something else at play that I haven't thought of?
