You have both the dish cost and the cost of the tower work to swap out the dishes. Where an adapter for an existing dish seems to be less resistance to me.
From: Bill Prince Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2017 12:41 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] New WBMFG products? I bet most AF11 buyers are taking the path of least resistance, and just using the Jirous dishes. On Tuesday, March 21, 2017 10:56 AM, Jon Langeler <[email protected]> wrote: I'm interested in adapters. But we haven't gotten to that point in time yet. I think you have to give it more time before you see more orders... Jon Langeler Michwave Technologies, Inc. On Mar 21, 2017, at 1:05 PM, Chuck McCown <[email protected]> wrote: I can convert a rectangular feed horn to round and then to connectorized. But I have to have the feedhorn so that means the link goes down until the conversion is complete. From: George Skorup Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2017 10:49 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] New WBMFG products? I've said all along, it's probably easiest to convert a Remec round interface, i.e. Trango ApexPlus and ApexLynx, of course ApexLynx is new enough that you probably wouldn't replace it with an AF11. And we have a metric shitload of ApexPlus deployed on Trango OEM dishes and Radiowaves HPx-11R's. IIRC, the PTP800 ODU is just a rebranded Remec. In fact, I think it is exactly the same as the ApexPlus and GigaPlus ODU. CTI's Apex9 LL is exactly the same as the PTP800, just an OEM IDU and a Remec ODU. On 3/21/2017 10:55 AM, Chuck McCown wrote: I can do the Remec adapter, but you will still need a circular nose on the antenna. From: Josh Baird Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2017 9:25 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] New WBMFG products? Yeah - it's in service unfortunately. They are Remnec. On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 11:17 AM, Chuck McCown <[email protected]> wrote: Could do. I have done lots of replacement and oddball feedhorns. Is that dish currently in service? I would need to have the current feedhorn for about a half hour to make sure I have the dimensions down correctly. From: Josh Baird Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2017 9:00 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] New WBMFG products? So - we are looking for an adapter that will allow us to re-use our single polarity Commscope dishes (currently with PTP-800 radios). Anything up your sleeve for that? On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 10:24 AM, Chuck McCown <[email protected]> wrote: Kinda. Did a session at AnimalFarm about it. Not sure if I will release it or not. I have adapters for DragonWave, Remec, Exalt and SAF dishes. But there did not seem to be much enthusiasm. From: Josh Baird Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2017 8:21 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [AFMUG] New WBMFG products? Hiya Chuck, I seem to remember you talking about announcing something new for the AF11x? Did this ever happen? Any other new products that were announced at WISPAmerica this year? Josh
