Re: [AFMUG] Ubiquiti AF-11x licensed links

2020-01-08 Thread Mike Meluskey
ALFO Plus2 11Ghz 80Mhz channels at 4096 QAM 2+0 XPIC 710Mbps per channel On 9 Jan 2020, at 0:08, Jason McKemie wrote: The ALFO Plus 11 can do 80MHz? That's news to me, SIAE has always told me they do 56MHz in a 80MHz channel. The pair that I have in the air is currently set up that way. On

Re: [AFMUG] Ubiquiti AF-11x licensed links

2020-01-08 Thread Steve Jones
Reach out to aviat, Ken would be better equipped to detail this than me. Its worth talking to them, light pressure sales. On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 11:04 PM Darin Steffl wrote: > Steve, > > What do you mean by they can do more than an 80mhz channel? As far as I > know, that's the largest channel

Re: [AFMUG] Ubiquiti AF-11x licensed links

2020-01-08 Thread Darin Steffl
Steve, What do you mean by they can do more than an 80mhz channel? As far as I know, that's the largest channel size allowed in FCC land for licensed backhauls. Educate me if I'm wrong. It sounds interesting On Wed, Jan 8, 2020, 10:31 PM Steve Jones wrote: > aviat can do even more than 80 in

Re: [AFMUG] Ubiquiti AF-11x licensed links

2020-01-08 Thread Steve Jones
aviat can do even more than 80 in fcc if you can get a spare channel. youd want to talk to Ken Ruppel Price is crazy good. We are going to be doing 3 of them here shortly. a buddy of mine got aviat certified and had been installing a bunch on contract, says the gear is easy to deal with and the

Re: [AFMUG] Ubiquiti AF-11x licensed links

2020-01-08 Thread Jason McKemie
I thought so as well. On Wednesday, January 8, 2020, Mathew Howard wrote: > I think you need ALFO Plus 2 to do 80mhz > > On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 10:09 PM Jason McKemie < > j.mcke...@veloxinetbroadband.com> wrote: > >> The ALFO Plus 11 can do 80MHz? That's news to me, SIAE has always told me >>

Re: [AFMUG] Ubiquiti AF-11x licensed links

2020-01-08 Thread Mathew Howard
I think you need ALFO Plus 2 to do 80mhz On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 10:09 PM Jason McKemie < j.mcke...@veloxinetbroadband.com> wrote: > The ALFO Plus 11 can do 80MHz? That's news to me, SIAE has always told me > they do 56MHz in a 80MHz channel. The pair that I have in the air is > currently set up

Re: [AFMUG] Ubiquiti AF-11x licensed links

2020-01-08 Thread Jason McKemie
The ALFO Plus 11 can do 80MHz? That's news to me, SIAE has always told me they do 56MHz in a 80MHz channel. The pair that I have in the air is currently set up that way. On Wednesday, January 8, 2020, Mike Meluskey wrote: > We are very impressed with SIAE Alfo Plus 11 and 18Ghz links with

Re: [AFMUG] Vehicle Tracking

2020-01-08 Thread Darin Steffl
Bouncie On Wed, Jan 8, 2020, 8:46 PM Matt Hoppes wrote: > Funny - fleetmatics costs money while FordPass is free. > > I can track my trucks with FordPass for free. > > Granted fleetmatics has more details. But still. Makes you think. > > On Jan 8, 2020, at 9:39 PM, Jaime Solorza > wrote: > >

[AFMUG] Nano antennas for data transfer

2020-01-08 Thread Jaime Solorza
https://phys.org/news/2020-01-nano-antennas.html -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com

Re: [AFMUG] Ubiquiti AF-11x licensed links

2020-01-08 Thread Kurt Fankhauser
Mike, Are this SIAE links 1.4gbps full duplex or aggregate? On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 7:14 PM Mike Meluskey wrote: > We are very impressed with SIAE Alfo Plus 11 and 18Ghz links with 80Mhz > dual-pol channels. > Getting 1.4Gbps of throughput. > > On 8 Jan 2020, at 19:52, Ken Hohhof wrote: > >

Re: [AFMUG] Vehicle Tracking

2020-01-08 Thread Matt Hoppes
Funny - fleetmatics costs money while FordPass is free. I can track my trucks with FordPass for free. Granted fleetmatics has more details. But still. Makes you think. > On Jan 8, 2020, at 9:39 PM, Jaime Solorza wrote: > > We use Fleetmatics on Verizon for vans and buses. We have a large

Re: [AFMUG] Vehicle Tracking

2020-01-08 Thread Jaime Solorza
We use Fleetmatics on Verizon for vans and buses. We have a large TV on wall always monitoring them in command center. On Wed, Jan 8, 2020, 5:19 PM Nate Burke wrote: > So since my Delphi Units apparently just suddenly terminated, what else > is out there for vehicle tracking? > > We liked the

Re: [AFMUG] Vehicle Tracking

2020-01-08 Thread Steve Jones
get one of the verizon kid trackers. theyre like five bucks a month too. kid, vehicle, same thing On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 6:19 PM Nate Burke wrote: > So since my Delphi Units apparently just suddenly terminated, what else > is out there for vehicle tracking? > > We liked the delphi units because

Re: [AFMUG] Ubiquiti AF-11x licensed links

2020-01-08 Thread Gino A. Villarini
we have over 50 AF11x links, best option for its price. We also have CEragon and Aviat. Both great but at 3x -4x the price Gino Villarini Founder/President @gvillarini t: 787.273.4143 Ext. 204 m:

Re: [AFMUG] Anyone use these

2020-01-08 Thread Brian Webster
The nice thing about zello too is that if you are on site without cell service but still can get to the network or have Wi-Fi on site Zello works fine that way too. Brian From: AF [mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com] On Behalf Of Brian Webster Sent: Wednesday, January 8, 2020 7:34 PM To:

Re: [AFMUG] Anyone use these

2020-01-08 Thread Brian Webster
Zello doesn’t have any monthly fee for the free version. Just data use. Brian From: AF [mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com] On Behalf Of TJ Trout Sent: Wednesday, January 8, 2020 4:51 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Anyone use these I think if you want to run

[AFMUG] Vehicle Tracking

2020-01-08 Thread Nate Burke
So since my Delphi Units apparently just suddenly terminated, what else is out there for vehicle tracking? We liked the delphi units because they were just on the Verizon bill for $5 each. It looks like most of vehicle tracking services are about $20/month/vehicle. Sonar can do some

Re: [AFMUG] Ubiquiti AF-11x licensed links

2020-01-08 Thread Mike Meluskey
We are very impressed with SIAE Alfo Plus 11 and 18Ghz links with 80Mhz dual-pol channels. Getting 1.4Gbps of throughput. On 8 Jan 2020, at 19:52, Ken Hohhof wrote: Mark is right, I was being nice. As far as advance replacement, I believe there is an additional warranty you can purchase

Re: [AFMUG] Ubiquiti AF-11x licensed links

2020-01-08 Thread Ken Hohhof
Mark is right, I was being nice. As far as advance replacement, I believe there is an additional warranty you can purchase to get that. Haven’t done it, so can’t comment. There is some period of time after shipment, I think 30 or 45 days or something, where they will treat it as a DOA

Re: [AFMUG] Ubiquiti AF-11x licensed links

2020-01-08 Thread Josh Baird
Do they not have an advanced replacement? This seems to be pretty common with other vendors these days. On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 6:23 PM Mark Radabaugh wrote: > > > On Jan 8, 2020, at 5:45 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote: > > > A couple other comments about Cambium licensed radios. Make sure you >

Re: [AFMUG] Ubiquiti AF-11x licensed links

2020-01-08 Thread Mark Radabaugh
> On Jan 8, 2020, at 5:45 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote: > > > A couple other comments about Cambium licensed radios. Make sure you account > for the price of all the keys you may need. Ask your Cambium rep if you can > get a discount, especially if you intend to buy multiple links. They may >

Re: [AFMUG] Ubiquiti AF-11x licensed links

2020-01-08 Thread Ken Hohhof
I think most people buy the standard PTP820S and PtP820C, not the high power version, so I wouldn’t focus on the price of the HP version unless you think you really need that. Cambium PTP820S/C is rebranded Ceragon IP20, and I assume at some point Cambium will be selling a PTP850 based on

Re: [AFMUG] Ubiquiti AF-11x licensed links

2020-01-08 Thread Josh Baird
Yep - Aviat has this capability. On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 5:11 PM Mathew Howard wrote: > Well, if we're talking about the high power model of the PTP820, I don't > think there are a lot of other radios that can hit that kind of power > levels, and if there are, they probably aren't any cheaper. >

Re: [AFMUG] Ubiquiti AF-11x licensed links

2020-01-08 Thread Mathew Howard
Well, if we're talking about the high power model of the PTP820, I don't think there are a lot of other radios that can hit that kind of power levels, and if there are, they probably aren't any cheaper. For the lower end models, most of the brands that I priced were within a few thousand of each

Re: [AFMUG] Ubiquiti AF-11x licensed links

2020-01-08 Thread Josh Baird
You can get *much* cheaper links that will do 1.2Gbps. Holler at Aviat if you are shopping. On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 4:28 PM Adam Moffett wrote: > You're closer to $25k once you're all in with that one, including license > keys and the whole BOM. It'll do 1.2gbps though. > > -Adam > > > On

Re: [AFMUG] Anyone use these

2020-01-08 Thread TJ Trout
I think if you want to run the dedicated lte radio hardware you just need to provide a active LTE data only sim, something like at prepaid or maybe even twilio is a good solution for low data low monthly price, then you pay for the cloud radio service on top? I'm sure they may also offer lte

Re: [AFMUG] Anyone use these

2020-01-08 Thread Brian Webster
If they can run the zello app then they work with any internet connectivity. Brian Webster From: AF [mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com] On Behalf Of ch...@wbmfg.com Sent: Wednesday, January 8, 2020 4:07 PM To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Anyone use these Will

Re: [AFMUG] Ubiquiti AF-11x licensed links

2020-01-08 Thread Jason McKemie
Ouch, what is the selling point of these with companies like Aviat offering much better deals? On Wednesday, January 8, 2020, Adam Moffett wrote: > You're closer to $25k once you're all in with that one, including license > keys and the whole BOM. It'll do 1.2gbps though. > > -Adam > > > On

Re: [AFMUG] Ubiquiti AF-11x licensed links

2020-01-08 Thread Adam Moffett
You're closer to $25k once you're all in with that one, including license keys and the whole BOM.  It'll do 1.2gbps though. -Adam On 1/8/2020 12:33 PM, Mathew Howard wrote: Yes, PTP820 can do 80mhz, but they're not cheap... especially the high power version. I don't remember exactly what I

Re: [AFMUG] Anyone use these

2020-01-08 Thread can...@believewireless.net
https://www.twowayradiocenter.com/hytera-pnc370/ $305 On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 4:07 PM wrote: > Will this work with my regular AT account or is this something different? > How much do the handsets cost? I have used the Zello apps on the phone. > My guys don’t like them too much. > Nextel was

Re: [AFMUG] Anyone use these

2020-01-08 Thread chuck
Will this work with my regular AT account or is this something different? How much do the handsets cost? I have used the Zello apps on the phone. My guys don’t like them too much. Nextel was great. From: Brian Webster Sent: Wednesday, January 8, 2020 1:14 PM To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users

Re: [AFMUG] Anyone use these

2020-01-08 Thread Brian Webster
I have one and use it with the free Zello software. Works great as long as you have cell phone coverage. Uses your data but not a big bandwidth hog unless you stay connected to some groups that are always talking. You can make custom groups for your company and have everyone talking on the same

Re: [AFMUG] Solar site

2020-01-08 Thread Lewis Bergman
Thanks Jaime On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 12:27 PM Jaime Solorza wrote: > https://www.sunwize.com/product-category/pre/ > Jaime Solorza > Wireless Systems Architect > 915-861-1390 > > > On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 11:19 AM Jaime Solorza > wrote: > >> Sunwize >> Jaime Solorza >> Wireless Systems Architect

Re: [AFMUG] Solar site

2020-01-08 Thread Jaime Solorza
https://www.sunwize.com/product-category/pre/ Jaime Solorza Wireless Systems Architect 915-861-1390 On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 11:19 AM Jaime Solorza wrote: > Sunwize > Jaime Solorza > Wireless Systems Architect > 915-861-1390 > > > On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 10:45 AM Lewis Bergman > wrote: > >> This

Re: [AFMUG] More Part 101 Noise

2020-01-08 Thread Jaime Solorza
nope..not even stopping anyone..lol Jaime Solorza Wireless Systems Architect 915-861-1390 On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 6:58 PM Ken Hohhof wrote: > You mean we’re spending all that money on “the wall” and it doesn’t block > RF? > > > > *From:* AF *On Behalf Of *Jaime Solorza > *Sent:* Tuesday,

Re: [AFMUG] Solar site

2020-01-08 Thread Jaime Solorza
Sunwize Jaime Solorza Wireless Systems Architect 915-861-1390 On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 10:45 AM Lewis Bergman wrote: > This topic has been raised often. What is a good website to help > calculate, and maybe purchase, everything I need for a solar site? > > -- > Lewis Bergman > 325-439-0533 Cell

[AFMUG] Solar site

2020-01-08 Thread Lewis Bergman
This topic has been raised often. What is a good website to help calculate, and maybe purchase, everything I need for a solar site? -- Lewis Bergman 325-439-0533 Cell -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com

Re: [AFMUG] Ubiquiti AF-11x licensed links

2020-01-08 Thread Mathew Howard
Yes, PTP820 can do 80mhz, but they're not cheap... especially the high power version. I don't remember exactly what I was quoted off hand, but you're probably going to be looking at $15-20k, for a complete link with XPIC and so forth. You could probably do Bridgewave Navigator or Aviat quite a

Re: [AFMUG] Ubiquiti AF-11x licensed links

2020-01-08 Thread Kurt Fankhauser
can PTP820 do 80mhz channel? maybe its just better to swap out with Cambium, how much is a cambium PTP820 link costing these days? High Power version? On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 12:03 PM Mathew Howard wrote: > There's also the problem that (as far as I know) there's no practical way > to run two

Re: [AFMUG] Ubiquiti AF-11x licensed links

2020-01-08 Thread Mathew Howard
There's also the problem that (as far as I know) there's no practical way to run two AF11 radios on a single dish... which means that it would end up costing more, and being overall less practical than just buying radios that support 80mhz channels. On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 10:55 AM Seth Mattinen

[AFMUG] Anyone use these

2020-01-08 Thread chuck
I wonder how these compare with conventional 2 way radio systems. I have been having limited success with MURS color dot and GMRS frequency radios due to range. I have not yet contacted a regional 2 way operator to get his radios. But I know my guys may travel out of the region he serves.

Re: [AFMUG] Ubiquiti AF-11x licensed links

2020-01-08 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 1/8/20 8:36 AM, Kurt Fankhauser wrote: if you have an 80mhz channel and are running radios in 56mhz channel width can u just put a 2nd link up and split them up to the two 40mhz? No, that's not allowed. You need to license two 40MHz channels. -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com

Re: [AFMUG] Ubiquiti AF-11x licensed links

2020-01-08 Thread Mathew Howard
The FCC needs to know about pretty much anything beyond replacing a radio with the exact same model. I suspect that you couldn't actually run two AF11's on adjacent channels anyway... On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 10:37 AM Kurt Fankhauser wrote: > if you have an 80mhz channel and are running radios in

Re: [AFMUG] Ubiquiti AF-11x licensed links

2020-01-08 Thread Jeff Broadwick - Lists
It’s getting better. Jeff Broadwick CTIconnect 312-205-2519 Office 574-220-7826 Cell jbroadw...@cticonnect.com > On Jan 8, 2020, at 10:38 AM, Joe Novak wrote: > >  > There seems to be a lot of people complaining about getting stock of spare > parts, and it has seemed to be on going for the

Re: [AFMUG] Ubiquiti AF-11x licensed links

2020-01-08 Thread Kurt Fankhauser
if you have an 80mhz channel and are running radios in 56mhz channel width can u just put a 2nd link up and split them up to the two 40mhz? Does FCC need to know about this or just do it? On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 10:38 AM Joe Novak wrote: > There seems to be a lot of people complaining about

Re: [AFMUG] Ubiquiti AF-11x licensed links

2020-01-08 Thread Joe Novak
There seems to be a lot of people complaining about getting stock of spare parts, and it has seemed to be on going for the last 6 months or so. Not something I would want to worry about. On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 9:26 AM Nate Burke wrote: > We have several, about 2 dozen in place for about 2

Re: [AFMUG] Ubiquiti AF-11x licensed links

2020-01-08 Thread Mathew Howard
Well, I would say that "Greatest spectral efficiency in its class" is perfectly true, because the only other radio that I consider to be "in its class" is the Mimosa B11, which is, in fact, much less spectrally efficient. But yeah, that claim is on the same level as saying that they're capable of

Re: [AFMUG] Ubiquiti AF-11x licensed links

2020-01-08 Thread Mathew Howard
We have five links running, and the oldest one have been running since shortly after the radios were released. They work well, they're the cheapest thing out there, and they've been reliable and consistent for us. The biggest downsides are limited capacity, and they're not as spectrally efficient

Re: [AFMUG] Ubiquiti AF-11x licensed links

2020-01-08 Thread Adam Moffett
I do not doubt that AF11 is reliable and cost effective.  I get grumbly when I read their data sheets and see the claim "Greatest spectral efficiency in its class".  That's only possible if they feel they're in a class by themselves.  If I compare throughput per chain, per mhz, at the same mod

Re: [AFMUG] Ubiquiti AF-11x licensed links

2020-01-08 Thread Nate Burke
We have several, about 2 dozen in place for about 2 years, Have not had any issues with them. I like the fact that they are cheap enough to just keep spares on a shelf. But so far we have not had any problems. Most of our Paths were running AF5 radios that we upgraded to AF11, so we didn't

Re: [AFMUG] Ubiquiti AF-11x licensed links

2020-01-08 Thread Matt Hoppes
We've had them for a few years... very reliable.. work well... only do 56Mhz of 80MHz channel width. Aviat will do the full 80MHz for only a small amount more (I believe). You can also run 2 x 11x links and divide the 80MHz up to 40Mhz+ 40MHz and get about 1.2Gbps vs the 700Mbps you'll get

[AFMUG] Ubiquiti AF-11x licensed links

2020-01-08 Thread Paul McCall
Anybody have more than a couple of these thing in place for while that can comment on their Pros / Cons ? Needing to buy 8 licensed links and looking for reliable, but cost effective Paul Paul McCall, President Florida Broadband / PDMNet 658 Old Dixie Highway Vero Beach, FL 32962 772-564-6800

Re: [AFMUG] More Part 101 Noise

2020-01-08 Thread Mike Hammett
I got Baltic and SAF to do that once. Unfortunately, I couldn't make it to my own meeting for whatever reason. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP - Original Message - From: "Ken Hohhof" To: "AnimalFarm