Don't forget to account for cable loss.  Also, some of the old Rocket
dishes (23) are actually 21.  I ran into that on the AF5X and that is the
info from support.

On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 5:13 PM, Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote:

> If a 5 GHz band antenna has a gain spec of 23 dBi and a graph of return
> loss vs frequency, is there a way to translate this into gain vs frequency?
>
> We put up an AF5x link today with the 23 dBi antennas and actual Rx signal
> was 6 dB less than ideal.  But that would make sense if the antenna gain
> was actually 20 dBi at the freq of operation 5230 MHz.

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