Not in this case. If they won’t let me put a 1 or 2’ dish on the tower they run to get extra bandwidth to the school (7 T1’s for 300 kids) or the medical clinic (2 T-1’s), I’m thinking they aren’t going to let me cut down or trim a mile of trees.
Everytime I proposed something I was answered with “we have a plan, just be patient”. Not really my strong suit. This plan involves towers but nobody knows who gets awarded or when. So, 2.4GHz through a mile of trees, here I come. I thought of the 2’ dish and see what happens but I don’t want to have to pay tower climbers so do this twice. I’m going to do the 8’ dish on the tower and 2’ dish on the roof. Once I see those numbers, I can make adjustments on the roof. Biggest issue is AF2 through trees. I’m thinking that I’m bringing up a pair of ePMP 2.4GHz radios also to compare. I’m also considering putting up a Cambium 450i 900MHz as backup with a Yagi. Rory From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Chuck McCown Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2017 6:44 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Does anyone have a 28-34dBi 2.4GHz 2x2 MIMO antenna Actually, you would be surprised. I have asked them to remove trees in a microwave path before and they had no problem doing it. From: Rory Conaway Sent: Monday, May 15, 2017 9:15 PM To: af@afmug.com<mailto:af@afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Does anyone have a 28-34dBi 2.4GHz 2x2 MIMO antenna I’d like to stay out of jail and I’m pretty sure the U.S. Forestry service frowns on that. Rory From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Eric Kuhnke Sent: Monday, May 15, 2017 1:23 PM To: af@afmug.com<mailto:af@afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Does anyone have a 28-34dBi 2.4GHz 2x2 MIMO antenna Have you considered the rigging/hoisting and mounting costs of 8' dishes, vs chainsaw or doing something more creative in dish location with 2.5'/3' size dishes to get real LOS? On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 6:23 AM, Rory Conaway <r...@triadwireless.net<mailto:r...@triadwireless.net>> wrote: I’ve got to punch through a mile of trees with AF2x radio so I’m probably going to for the 6’ or 8’ dishes. Rory From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Colin Stanners Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2017 7:05 PM To: af@afmug.com<mailto:af@afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Does anyone have a 28-34dBi 2.4GHz 2x2 MIMO antenna Gain is never an exact number as it always varies over the covered frequency range and polarization, but from what I understand Ubiquiti overstates their gain by 2-3 db over the 'industry standard' measurements. Similar to how they say the AF24 can go up to 10miles, which is effectively bs, the max 99.99% availability reliable range is 3-4 miles almost anywhere on earth that a substantial number of those radios coild be installed. On May 14, 2017 8:44 PM, "Christopher Gray" <cg...@graytechsoftware.com<mailto:cg...@graytechsoftware.com>> wrote: Gain is not quite as high as you are asking for, but L-Com goes up to a 900mm dish. I can't quite tell if UBNT over states their gain, L-Com understates their gain, or if there is another fundamental difference, but the L-Com 900mm dish is only rated at 25 dBi. I have not used it, but I've been happy with their 400mm unit. http://www.l-com.com/wireless-antenna-24-ghz-dual-polarized-dpd-series-parabolic-dish-antennas -Chris On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 5:22 PM, Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuh...@gmail.com<mailto:eric.kuh...@gmail.com>> wrote: I have not seen one that is anywhere near reasonably priced and can be equipped with a (first party or third party) side shield/radome kit. The Radiowaves stuff exists but is a design from 15 years ago. Willing to bet the Radiowaves 3' and 4' size 2.4 GHz dishes are great at gathering unwanted 2.4 noise from the sides... On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 2:42 PM, Rory Conaway <r...@triadwireless.net<mailto:r...@triadwireless.net>> wrote: Looking for something bigger than the Ubiquiti RD-24 dish. Rory
