radios are directly connected to the Jirous 2' dishes with the hardware supplied by mimosa.
On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 11:30 AM, Erich Kaiser <er...@northcentraltower.com> wrote: > Waveguide issue on dish? Wrong size ? > > On Aug 30, 2016 12:21 PM, "Sean Heskett" <af...@zirkel.us> wrote: > >> Hi Gang, >> >> I've already contacted mimosa support and they seem to be stumped too, so >> i thought I'd check with y'all to see if you've seen the same issue. >> >> We have a B11 link that is 6 miles clear LOS (we currently have a >> dragonwave horizon compact plus 18Ghz link in place that the B11 will be >> replacing). The PCN states we should have a -42.5 the B11 interface states >> we should have a -40.9. On the near side with is also the AP side we have >> a -42 (as expected) however on the far side (station side) we have a >> -53.2. Both sides are using the Jirous 2' dishes. We've tried swapping >> radios on both sides, i've downgraded to 1.3.1 and back to 1.4.1 and we've >> moved the dishes 5' vertically on both sides with no change. the station >> side is always about 10-12db worse. We are not on a sidelobe since the >> other radio is at expected signal level. >> >> Mimosa has stated they are "looking into it" and they have another >> customer with a similar problem. I've provided them VPN access and they >> have run some diagnostic scripts. It's been almost 2 weeks since I first >> contacted mimosa and they don't have any answer other than "we are working >> on it". >> >> I'm ready to switch vendors to another product. We have to get this link >> live because it's going to start snowing here soon. Anyone else have this >> issue or have any other ideas of what to try?? >> >> -Sean >> >>
