It looks to me like you can use a hose clamp to mount the SM, but it will not be spaced away from the pole nearly as much as original Canopy.
From: Brandon Yuchasz Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2016 9:16 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 900mhz PMP450i with dual polarity panel Also to make a stinger work you will need a way to hang the SM and clamp it tight to a pole. Right now the only way to mount / hang an SM is to snap it onto the bracket on the yagi. Obviously with a panel like that we can come up with something to hang the SM but if the stinger is going to rely on the SM to hold it something will need to be created. Best regards, Brandon Yuchasz GogebicRange.net www.gogebicrange.net From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chuck McCown Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2016 8:18 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 900mhz PMP450i with dual polarity panel Yeah, it would have to be some kind of C shaped claw attachment. This is one radio I don’t have so I can’t really brainstorm too much. From: Ken Hohhof Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2016 7:13 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 900mhz PMP450i with dual polarity panel SMA on top of SM. Also, how is slip-on going to work, unless you have a way of slipping onto the SMA connectors inside the “pocket” and not needing cables? The old slip-on 900 Stingers worked with an SM that had pigtails coming out the bottom, not SMA on the top. From: Josh Luthman Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2016 7:51 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 900mhz PMP450i with dual polarity panel Would it be cheaper to have N connectors or jumpers? Keep in mind the N are on top of the SM. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Jan 14, 2016 8:40 PM, "Chuck McCown" <[email protected]> wrote: Possibly. I have the mold for the cover. Back would be aluminum. Just need a nice pocket that slips over and interfaces with the radio. Does the radio come with cables? From: Josh Luthman Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2016 6:33 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 900mhz PMP450i with dual polarity panel Slip on stinger would be way faster. Could you match the price? Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Jan 14, 2016 8:31 PM, "Chuck McCown" <[email protected]> wrote: I would have to have a large commitment to meet that price for a slip on stinger version. From: Mathew Howard Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2016 5:58 PM To: af Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 900mhz PMP450i with dual polarity panel This is the antenna: http://www.lanbowan.com/ANT915D12C-DP.htm The antennas themselves are pretty cheap - they charged me $41.61/each, but shipping was quite expensive (they sent them DHL - there are obviously cheaper ways). I suspect that if you ordered a large enough quantity to get a decent shipping rate, even after adding jumper cables, it would still be a bit cheaper than the Cambium yagis. I did do a little testing with V/H... but it was kind of inconclusive, the signal level was only slightly weaker, but when I ran a link test, it was much worse - about 45m down vs 90m, I tried holding the Cambium yagi at a 45 degree angle and it was pretty similar results - 70m vs 90m and slightly weaker signal. I'm not sure if that was anything to do with the polarity being mismatched, or if it was just that H/V doesn't work as well as slant at that particular location... also, I was just holding thing antennas for the H/V tests and they were mounted at +/-45, so that could account for some of it too. On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 4:50 PM, Chuck McCown <[email protected]> wrote: What’s it cost? From: Mathew Howard Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2016 3:36 PM To: af Subject: [AFMUG] 900mhz PMP450i with dual polarity panel Fresh from China :) I tested it at two different customer's houses, and signal levels were consistently within 1db of the Cambium yagis. Not quite as clean of a package as the Cambium antennas, but it works and it's not a yagi... I did have to replace the bracket to make it dual slant though.
