Same frequency list on both sides? Same firmware versions? On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 3:16 PM, Mathew Howard <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ah... yeah, it looks to me like they do in fact have SMA, and not RP-SMA > on those antennas... so that would definitely be a problem. It's actually > fairly common for SMA connectors on antennas to not be reverse polarity. > > On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 4:07 PM, Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Sorry, meant to say both connectors with FEMALE pins. >> >> >> >> *From:* Af [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Ken Hohhof >> *Sent:* Tuesday, November 29, 2016 4:05 PM >> *To:* [email protected] >> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] any special tricks to get AF-3X to work? >> >> >> >> Good thought, I had frame length at “default”, I changed it to 2 ms both >> ends, still nothing. >> >> >> >> So it could be bad radios, bad coax, bad antennas. I used the Mikrotik >> blue jumpers which I’ve used before with no problems, it was a new shipment >> >> >> >> I’ve used the Mars panels before, this time got them with SMA connectors >> (actually turned out to be right angle which I hate), in the past have used >> N connector model. The spec sheet doesn’t specifically say RP-SMA, of >> course now they’re on towers so I can’t look. What do you want to bet I’ve >> got male and female threaded connectors both with male pins? I just assume >> SMA connectors are always reverse polarity. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> *From:* Af [mailto:[email protected] <[email protected]>] *On >> Behalf Of *Mathew Howard >> *Sent:* Tuesday, November 29, 2016 3:21 PM >> *To:* af <[email protected]> >> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] any special tricks to get AF-3X to work? >> >> >> >> The only thing that comes to mind that's any different than the AF-5X is >> that you need to make sure the frame length is set the same on both ends of >> the link. I'm assuming that it would show something on the main tab if it >> was an LBT thing... the AF-5X says something like "radar detected" in red, >> so it's pretty obvious... I'm assuming they do something similar, but I've >> never seen it happen. As long as all of the settings match on both radios, >> it ought to work. I know the 5X's don't care which connector is plugged >> into which polarity, so I'd be pretty surprised if there was something like >> that going on. >> >> >> >> On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 3:05 PM, Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I’ve done several AF-5X links with no issues. Today we replaced a >> Powerbridge 3.65 link with AF-3X and it just won’t work. Master says >> beaconing, slave says syncing. >> >> >> >> Is there some trick to these other than the obvious bad radio, antenna or >> jumper? It’s on the same channel as the Powerbridges which had great RF >> performance, so it shouldn’t be an RF path problem. >> >> >> >> The only thing I did nonstandard was I decided to mount the antennas >> (Mars panels) as V-H instead of dual slant. I don’t need to swap V and H >> at one end or something weird like that, do I? >> >> >> >> I looked for any config items I might have wrong, there’s not much. >> Ubiquiti’s LBT implementation doesn’t seem to have alternate frequencies. >> I’m not sure what it would say if it was not transmitting because of LBT. >> >> >> > >
