i guess that's a possibility. the only other dish we have available is a 3' that is for the other link we are installing, guess we could try that just to see what happens.
On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 3:50 PM, Jaime Solorza <[email protected]> wrote: > Did you swap dishes? I have had bad dishes right out of the box... > Especially the first 1 ft. 5GHz dishes from Radio waves way back when God > was a child. > > On Aug 30, 2016 3:36 PM, "Sean Heskett" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> i guess you could ask what would make one side of a link 10db weaker than >> the other. >> >> mimosa tech support seems to be stumped as well. not sure where to go >> from here. The B5s we've used are awesome...the B11 so far seems a bit >> half baked :-/ >> >> -sean >> >> >> On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 12:11 PM, Jaime Solorza < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I will attending a Mimosa certification class tomorrow all day... Any >>> questions I should ask? >>> >>> On Aug 30, 2016 11:21 AM, "Sean Heskett" <[email protected]> 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 >>>> >>>> >>
