Re: [AFMUG] RackMount PacketFlux PowerInjector+Sync

2016-03-08 Thread George Skorup
I could go either way. 4x4 for 16 or 6x3 for 18. More ports is always cool. I guess whatever makes the most sense to you would be fine with me. This really comes down to being able to power just about anything imaginable... except for Trango's crazy licensed POE scheme, power consumption and -

Re: [AFMUG] RackMount PacketFlux PowerInjector+Sync

2016-03-08 Thread George Skorup
Popcorn! On 3/8/2016 2:46 PM, Jeremy wrote: A blank cover plate? On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 1:39 PM, Forrest Christian (List Account) mailto:li...@packetflux.com>> wrote: I'm thinking about this as an option. The question then becomes what to do with the empty holes? On Tue, Mar

Re: [AFMUG] RackMount PacketFlux PowerInjector+Sync

2016-03-08 Thread George Skorup
pansion bus output for those of you who want to add on a module or two, but I haven't decided about this yet. I think the others I've pretty much answered, and for those I have I haven't, your thinking is pretty much identical to mine. On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 1:23 PM, George Sk

Re: [AFMUG] RackMount PacketFlux PowerInjector+Sync

2016-03-08 Thread George Skorup
I believe the max spec for the Lumina HP is about 55 watts. Slightly more than an AF24 at 50 watts (@ 50V). Maybe 56V would bring the current down a little. Forrest did say 1A max per port, which would be right on the edge for the AF24. So there has to be a little wiggle room in there. Hopefull

Re: [AFMUG] RackMount PacketFlux PowerInjector+Sync

2016-03-09 Thread George Skorup
The current GigE SyncInjector works without any modifications such as pinout. Standard Canopy POE pinout works fine. Feed it 48-56v and plug it in. Not enough current to run anything off of the aux port though. I really wish they would've made the 450i take 20-56VDC. By all accounts, it doesn'

Re: [AFMUG] Small DC Site

2016-03-09 Thread George Skorup
The AD-155 is 150W max load. What I would do is a Traco TSP 48v power supply (180, 240, 360 or 600W), a TSP-BCMU360 in 48v mode and a Mean Well 48 to 24 RSD. The BCMU360 takes a 12v SLA and does an internal DC-DC conversion. I haven't had any problems with them. I have two in the field right n

Re: [AFMUG] Small DC Site

2016-03-09 Thread George Skorup
r similar float charger) when it has to be cheap and the 150W is enough. On 3/9/2016 3:21 PM, George Skorup wrote: The AD-155 is 150W max load. What I would do is a Traco TSP 48v power supply (180, 240, 360 or 600W), a TSP-BCMU360 in 48v mode and a Mean Well 48 to 24 RSD. The BCMU360 takes a

Re: [AFMUG] 5GHz Omni standoff

2016-03-10 Thread George Skorup
I have used a lot of the Andrew S2000. On 3/10/2016 1:00 PM, Jason McKemie wrote: Anyone have suggestions for a standoff mount for use with a 5GHz omni? It will be mounted to the side of a Pirod tower, so I'm going to need some sort of standoff to minimize shadowing. -Jason

Re: [AFMUG] FSK power problem?

2016-03-10 Thread George Skorup
So if I'm reading this correctly... regular 450 APs are being powered and running happily at 48VDC? That's funny because they're also supposed to be 30VDC max. On 3/10/2016 11:45 AM, Scott Vander Dussen wrote: You know what's funny is we did... But every time we tested we happened to grab 450

Re: [AFMUG] 5GHz Omni standoff

2016-03-10 Thread George Skorup
We have a couple Cyclone 5750-360's and PMP450 w/ KP 5GHz omni's on the 2' Andrew side-arms. The Larsen antenna on the Cyclone is a very good, smooth pattern. We do see maybe a couple dB discrepancy when SMs are on the opposite side, but they've been fine for the most part. So I think you'll be

Re: [AFMUG] FSK power problem?

2016-03-10 Thread George Skorup
50 AP will indeed run fine at 48-56V, that would really simplify a lot. Like I can downsize some DC-DC converters. On 3/10/2016 1:38 PM, Josh Baird wrote: Good point. We don't use hardly any 450.. but the spec sheet does indeed say 22-32VDC. On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 2:20 PM, George Sko

Re: [AFMUG] Displaying backhaul traffic on a map live

2016-03-10 Thread George Skorup
I'm using Network Weathermap integrated w/ Cacti. Makes it easy to visualize traffic flow on the network. Could be prettier, but it works. On 3/10/2016 11:51 PM, D. Ryan Spott wrote: Network weather map. It is a PITA to configure but the results are nice: http://weathermap.sw.alaska.edu/ (hove

Re: [AFMUG] FSK power problem?

2016-03-11 Thread George Skorup
by thumbs. On Mar 10, 2016, at 16:36, George Skorup <mailto:geo...@cbcast.com>> wrote: At one time, there was a roadmap slide that stated 48V support for the 450 AP. Long, long before the 450i was ever mentioned. So I wonder if the hardware supports 22-56V, but they tell us

Re: [AFMUG] Displaying backhaul traffic on a map live

2016-03-11 Thread George Skorup
Yeah, that's nice. Sorry, I meant *my* map is not so pretty. On 3/11/2016 8:27 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote: Could be prettier? That example Ryan posted is pretty enough for me. *From:* George Skorup <mailto:geo...@cbcast.com> *Sent:* Friday, March 11, 2016 1:06 AM *To:* af@afmug.com

Re: [AFMUG] One more quick question in re: new packetflux product design.

2016-03-11 Thread George Skorup
I have a site w/ 13 radios right now. 4x90 5GHz 450 cluster. 4x90 900 FSK cluster. Various other stuff, mostly PTP. So I'd say +1 to whoever said to make the rack-mount version shallow enough and ears allowed to be rotated 90 degrees for wall/panel mounting. But that would really only work if

Re: [AFMUG] One more quick question in re: new packetflux product design.

2016-03-11 Thread George Skorup
More ports is *never* bad. And if I don't use them all, so what. Something always comes up, like that micro-POP you never thought would grow. I have about a dozen sites which started out with 900 and 2.4 FSK omnis. They've grown to needing a full 4x90 cluster of both. Then I need a backhaul por

Re: [AFMUG] OT: Is it 1968 all over?

2016-03-12 Thread George Skorup
My dad is a union democrat who is admittedly socialist, so Sanders is his guy. Now on the flip side, one of his brothers thought Reagan was the greatest president ever. All I remember is Christmas dinner as a kid and those two screaming at each other. Over fucking politics. And then my grandma

Re: [AFMUG] FYI - new ARIN fee schedule effective July 1

2016-03-14 Thread George Skorup
Nice. We are X-small with a /21 of IPv4. Lucky we got that when we did. Looks like we can now get a /32 of IPv6 under that. Previously that would've put us in the Small category. So I guess now it's time to finally get an IPv6 allocation. On 3/14/2016 9:30 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote: https://www.ar

Re: [AFMUG] WISPAmerica

2016-03-15 Thread George Skorup
Did they make you wear the lab coat for the AF experience? On 3/15/2016 8:19 PM, Chuck McCown wrote: Is rocking. I had to go home early but everybody else is up going strong.

[AFMUG] Cacti template for SAF Lumina

2016-03-18 Thread George Skorup
Anyone have this so I don't have to start from scratch? Hit me off-list if you do because I think the Amazon list-serv doesn't allow XMLs.

Re: [AFMUG] 450M

2016-03-18 Thread George Skorup
How about this ass-umption. 4x4 MIMO? How about beam steering? On 3/16/2016 10:54 AM, Matt Mangriotis wrote: That would be an incorrect assumption… Matt *From:*Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] *On Behalf Of *Gino Villarini *Sent:* Wednesday, March 16, 2016 10:53 AM *To:* Animal Farm *Subject

Re: [AFMUG] UBNT new product

2016-03-18 Thread George Skorup
Yup, I believe the B11 is ac based. The AF will do true FDD so you can license standard coordinated channel pairs. And to top it off, they went the Exalt path with field replaceable diplexers. And looks like you can reverse the diplexer for high or low side. The N connector thing is kinda odd.

Re: [AFMUG] Cacti template for SAF Lumina

2016-03-19 Thread George Skorup
Sometimes you just gotta go out on a date with a crazy redhead. She came with a manual, but I ignored it and it has worked out so far. On 3/17/2016 10:10 PM, Bill Prince wrote: Sorry dude. Never bought any SAF gear, although I was tempted a few times. bp On 3/17/2016 7:56 PM, George Skorup

Re: [AFMUG] Full disclosure

2016-03-19 Thread George Skorup
And if you ran into my boss at the show and he said I'm a nice guy, then he's a lying sack of shit. On 3/17/2016 6:55 PM, That One Guy /sarcasm wrote: The bossman was at the show. He didn't do a lot of networking, though he did do some. I would like to be clear about something, my antics her

Re: [AFMUG] reasonably priced cable tester

2016-03-19 Thread George Skorup
Most cable has foot/meter markings. Unless it's buried in walls and the markings aren't visible near the ends. On 3/19/2016 2:01 PM, Rory Conaway wrote: Wow, found one on Amazon, $40. I didn’t expect that. http://www.amazon.com/SC8108-Network-Length-Cable-Tester/dp/B00A20KO18 Rory *From:*

Re: [AFMUG] reasonably priced cable tester

2016-03-19 Thread George Skorup
Fast or cheap, you can't have both. I'd really like to have a nice Fluke but that ain't gonna happen. On 3/19/2016 2:57 PM, Jay Weekley wrote: It's quicker with a tester. Especially when dealing with large numbers of runs. George Skorup wrote: Most cable has foot/meter m

Re: [AFMUG] Centralish Illinois wisps and the tornadoes

2016-03-19 Thread George Skorup
Out of all that, I had one blown fuse. I bet if I sent Steve, he'd dismantle the whole site just to be a dick. On 3/16/2016 12:04 PM, Ty Featherling wrote: You must be relieved you don't need Steve's help. Dodged a bullet indeed. -Ty -Ty On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 11:34 AM, Micah Miller

Re: [AFMUG] Canopy moving from 1 color code per tower to 1 color code per AP

2016-03-20 Thread George Skorup
We were running one color code network-wide until a few years ago when more and more APs were being added and things got real messy. We do a lot of 4x90 clusters. So I split the network into two color codes. Back-to-back APs are on the same frequency (mostly) and the same color code. The SM's p

[AFMUG] Winbox 3.3

2016-03-20 Thread George Skorup
Anyone using it yet? Any issues? The last time I tried any Winbox 3.x (3.2 I think), it was really stupid. Had a bunch of routers that then no longer stored preference info when connecting with Winbox 2. Then I think the next 3.x beta did something that fixed it, and I gave up on 3.x.

Re: [AFMUG] Winbox 3.3

2016-03-20 Thread George Skorup
few times with mixed results. I know that the router access list is not interchangeable between 3.x and 2.x. I'm still using 2.2.18 because of the various glitches. Kind of stupid that there's no easy D/L of any of the 2.x versions. bp On 3/20/2016 1:01 PM, George Skorup wrote:

Re: [AFMUG] Winbox 3.3

2016-03-21 Thread George Skorup
3.3 seems to be working fine for me on everything, even the 5.25/26 routers out there. No menu issues. Windows 10 on all of my machines. I'm surprised, really expected it to be crashing or something else stupid. On 3/21/2016 10:05 AM, Christopher Tyler wrote: I'm running 3.1 mostly without iss

Re: [AFMUG] Fuse question

2016-03-21 Thread George Skorup
Let a surge suppressor be a surge suppressor. I will handle the over-current externally (fuses, PacketFlux electronic, etc). On 3/21/2016 3:37 PM, Chuck McCown wrote: Yeah, I am coming to that conclusion I think. *From:* Forrest Christian (List Account) *Sent:* Mon

Re: [AFMUG] Fuse question

2016-03-21 Thread George Skorup
it is now. I haven't lost one in three years. Is this finding a solution to a problem that doesn't exist? On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 7:01 PM, Chuck McCown <mailto:ch...@wbmfg.com>> wrote: It is also a POE inserter. *From:* George Skorup <mailto:geo...@cbcast.com>

Re: [AFMUG] Fuse question

2016-03-21 Thread George Skorup
use question I am perfectly happy with the GIGE-POE-APC the way it is now. I haven't lost one in three years. Is this finding a solution to a problem that doesn't exist? On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 7:01 PM, Chuck McCown <mailto:ch...@wbmfg.com>> wrote: It is also a POE i

Re: [AFMUG] Cacti Users poll

2016-03-22 Thread George Skorup
I just install it on CentOS via yum. I forget what repo it's in, maybe EPEL. I do that to get the required dependencies. And then remove the repo provided Cacti since it's almost always out of date. Then download the latest from cacti.net or restore my backup, etc. I've said this before and I'

Re: [AFMUG] Politics on the list

2016-03-23 Thread George Skorup
Yeah, I just collapse whole threads and hit delete in Thunderchicken. Meh. But I'd say that I'd agree with Steve, and add that there are vendor reps on the list that probably don't want to read all the OT crap. Maybe they care, maybe not, I don't know. And this is still Chuck's list. I think h

Re: [AFMUG] Cambium 450i

2016-03-23 Thread George Skorup
Rory, if you're talking about the 5GHz 450i with the integrated 90 degree sector.. Cambium, Matt specifically I believe, has said that you do not want to use that version of the AP in a typical cluster config. It does not have the F/B ratio that regular sector antennas have. That's more for the

Re: [AFMUG] Cambium 450i

2016-03-23 Thread George Skorup
Just like all the other 450 gear. 125Mbps in a 20MHz channel. And that's at 256QAM. Assuming every customer is absolutely perfect. Never happens. The difference with the 450i is the software controlled dynamic notch filter. And yes, that's Rx only. Does help the on-channel noise levels. Our 90

Re: [AFMUG] Cambium 450i

2016-03-23 Thread George Skorup
If you do 6 sectors, you're using the entire band and have nowhere to go when one or two sectors is experiencing interference. Or you have to drop down to 5MHz channel bandwidth which sucks. This is why we do 4x90 clusters. Two channels with wiggle room. Of course that's FSK's 8MHz channel widt

Re: [AFMUG] Cambium 450i

2016-03-23 Thread George Skorup
Sorry, that should've been *does not* help with the on-channel noise. On 3/24/2016 12:23 AM, George Skorup wrote: Just like all the other 450 gear. 125Mbps in a 20MHz channel. And that's at 256QAM. Assuming every customer is absolutely perfect. Never happens. The difference with t

Re: [AFMUG] Cambium 450i

2016-03-24 Thread George Skorup
think I’ll have interference issues from other sources. Rory *From:*Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] *On Behalf Of *George Skorup *Sent:* Wednesday, March 23, 2016 10:29 PM *To:* af@afmug.com *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Cambium 450i If you do 6 sectors, you're using the entire band and have

Re: [AFMUG] Ceragon IP20C

2016-03-24 Thread George Skorup
Nearly all "11GHz" feedhorns are 10.7 to 11.7. Some might be 10.0 or 10.2 to 11.7. So yeah, you'll be fine. On 3/24/2016 6:02 PM, Sterling Jacobson wrote: What about on the antenna itself? If I have a VHLP3-11W-CR4A Commscope/Andrew antenna is that a ‘Low’ antenna, or does the antenna even m

Re: [AFMUG] Cambium 450i

2016-03-24 Thread George Skorup
*From:*Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com <mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com>] *On Behalf Of *George Skorup *Sent:* Thursday, March 24, 2016 1:40 PM *To:* af@afmug.com <mailto:af@afmug.com> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Cambium 450i Dude, there's interference everywhere i

Re: [AFMUG] Cambium 450i

2016-03-24 Thread George Skorup
yet invented a good front end filter that is not mechanical and somewhat fixed. Hard to do that with software. *From:* George Skorup <mailto:geo...@cbcast.com> *Sent:* Thursday, March 24, 2016 6:50 PM *To:* af@afmug.com <mailto:af@afmug.com> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Cambium 450i Serio

[AFMUG] SyncPipe question

2016-03-26 Thread George Skorup
Dumb question, probably best answered by Forrest. Say I have one of the newer universal Parasitic SyncPipes. Newer meaning Rev G+. Universal meaning you can use them on standard Canopy 30VDC POE and the stupid 320/430 pinout, since they tap only the two power pins that don't change. OK, so now

Re: [AFMUG] SyncPipe question

2016-03-27 Thread George Skorup
Christian (List Account) wrote: I wouldn't recommend this. Mainly because it's going to unbalance the gigabit ethernet pairs and likely cause ethernet errors as the power consumption changes. On Mar 26, 2016 7:15 AM, "George Skorup" <mailto:geo...@cbcast.com>> wrote:

Re: [AFMUG] PMP450 - CPEs refusing to reconnect

2016-03-28 Thread George Skorup
You'll need to reboot the AP. I'm actually really surprised that your AP has been running on 13.4 for 200+ days. I figured you'd have seen some watchdog resets. Anyway.. we see this somewhat frequently. Sometimes we get SMs failing to register due to "out of range" when clearly they are within

Re: [AFMUG] door access control

2016-03-28 Thread George Skorup
We have two 4-door GeoVision controllers in our office. Two electric strikes on the outside doors. One maglock on an internal passage door so another tenant can use the bathrooms. GeoVision's AS Manager software runs on a Windows machine. Has a web GUI. I think we're using Weigand 26 card read

Re: [AFMUG] Youtube upload bandwidth

2016-03-28 Thread George Skorup
Where is your bandwidth control? SM or MikroTik? I'm guessing upstream router. If you had it on the SM, you wouldn't see the overload. On 3/28/2016 6:11 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote: I had a customer today uploading for 2 hours at way over his rate limit, he says he was uploading a Youtube video. An

Re: [AFMUG] Youtube upload bandwidth

2016-03-28 Thread George Skorup
s are set manually. *From:*Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] *On Behalf Of *George Skorup *Sent:* Monday, March 28, 2016 6:15 PM *To:* af@afmug.com *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Youtube upload bandwidth Where is your bandwidth control? SM or MikroTik? I'm guessing upstream router. If you had it on the

Re: [AFMUG] PMP450 - CPEs refusing to reconnect

2016-03-28 Thread George Skorup
10:09 PM, Bill Prince wrote: Sounds like the cold might be an issue. We have several APs on 13.4 with 200+ days. A few have 264 days. It never really gets "cold" here. Mid 30s is about the most extreme we've seen this winter. bp On 3/28/2016 1:02 PM, George Skorup wrote: You&#

Re: [AFMUG] Youtube upload bandwidth

2016-03-28 Thread George Skorup
itting the AP the customer WILL COMPLAIN about extreamly slow download speeds and high latency. I confirmed this with one customer and its painfully slow. I had to induce the rate limit somewhere before the AP so that the SM wouldn't be choking so bad. On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 8:11 PM, Geo

Re: [AFMUG] New One - 450 AP Issue

2016-03-29 Thread George Skorup
430's are V pol only. If you lost the vertical on the AP, perhaps due to water in the cable, that will do it. On 3/29/2016 2:07 PM, Tyson Burris @ Internet Communications Inc wrote: Ok Geeks, Just had a single 450 AP drop all it�s 430 Interop. SM�s over the past 24 Hrs. Tired of repeati

Re: [AFMUG] POE + standard

2016-03-30 Thread George Skorup
Nope, just cost. On 3/30/2016 8:59 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote: Does anyone use the UGPS? Is it the cost that turns people off, or something else? *From:* Forrest Christian (List Account) *Sent:* Wednesday, March 30, 2016 1:12 AM *To:* af *Subject:*

Re: [AFMUG] mounting brackets / hardware for 4 epmp sectors on a rohn 45/

2016-03-30 Thread George Skorup
Understatement of the day. On 3/30/2016 10:00 AM, Josh Luthman wrote: Holy shit. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 10:54 AM, Sean Heskett > wrote: You mean like this? ;) 8 X

Re: [AFMUG] Super long rack screw

2016-03-30 Thread George Skorup
Old AT&T telco racks are 12-24. All of the new 2-post telco racks we get are 12-24 threaded as well. On 3/30/2016 4:11 PM, Eric Kuhnke wrote: Most relay racks / two post racks from US sources (Hammond, Middle Atlantic, Chatsworth) which don't use nuts seem to ship with 10-32 US threaded holes.

Re: [AFMUG] Super long rack screw

2016-03-30 Thread George Skorup
ng to use metric please... On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 2:22 PM, George Skorup mailto:geo...@cbcast.com>> wrote: Old AT&T telco racks are 12-24. All of the new 2-post telco racks we get are 12-24 threaded as well. On 3/30/2016 4:11 PM, Eric Kuhnke wrote: Mos

[AFMUG] Lumina WTF

2016-03-30 Thread George Skorup
So I have a 6GHz Lumina configured for 56MHz/256QAM ACM weak FEC. We are coordinated for variable power and it is active. It's a ~30 mile path on horns. Apparently the link took some fade yesterday morning. One side was stuck on 32QAM strong FEC. I figured meh, it'll clear. Well I just looked a

Re: [AFMUG] PMP100 5775sm connect to 5700ap?

2016-03-31 Thread George Skorup
I don't know what's special about the 5775 SMs, but we have a bunch and they work fine on 5750APs. If by 5700AP you mean a non-Advantage 5.7 AP, it should register since the 5775s appear to be standard 7Mb SMs. Advantage SM to non-Advantage AP is a no-go. Anything will connect to an Advantage A

Re: [AFMUG] Lumina WTF

2016-03-31 Thread George Skorup
ad a problem with it for a while, however now that I've said something ... On 3/31/2016 2:53 AM, George Skorup wrote: So I have a 6GHz Lumina configured for 56MHz/256QAM ACM weak FEC. We are coordinated for variable power and it is active. It's a ~30 mile path on horns. Apparently t

Re: [AFMUG] Lumina WTF

2016-03-31 Thread George Skorup
That's all I live for. On 3/31/2016 12:15 PM, That One Guy /sarcasm wrote: hater On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 12:14 PM, George Skorup <mailto:geo...@cbcast.com>> wrote: Awesome. 5 days after turn-up and this happened. Granted, it's a pretty long path and we knew w

Re: [AFMUG] Lumina WTF

2016-03-31 Thread George Skorup
t 11:14 AM, George Skorup wrote: Awesome. 5 days after turn-up and this happened. Granted, it's a pretty long path and we knew we'd see fading, but that's what ACM is for. I've heard nothing but good things about SAF and the Lumina platform, so this is pretty hard to swallow.

Re: [AFMUG] Lumina WTF

2016-03-31 Thread George Skorup
OK, add Ken humor and Steve commentary to the live-for list. On 3/31/2016 12:36 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote: I will call you Hater Salad. *From:* George Skorup <mailto:geo...@cbcast.com> *Sent:* Thursday, March 31, 2016 12:24 PM *To:* af@afmug.com <mailto:af@afmug.com> *Subject:* Re: [A

Re: [AFMUG] Lumina WTF

2016-03-31 Thread George Skorup
I just want Steve to have his rainbow farting unicorn. On 3/31/2016 1:01 PM, Mathew Howard wrote: What more could you want? On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 12:54 PM, George Skorup <mailto:geo...@cbcast.com>> wrote: OK, add Ken humor and Steve commentary to the live-for list. On 3/3

Re: [AFMUG] Another ground question

2016-03-31 Thread George Skorup
That's what i was going to say. If it's a cheap meter, don't worry about it. Bond everything and you should be fine. On 3/31/2016 5:27 PM, Chuck McCown wrote: Depends on the meter. Does the meter read 0.0 when the leads are shorted together? Some meters have some random fluctuations in the lea

Re: [AFMUG] A day in the life

2016-03-31 Thread George Skorup
Looks like Valmont/SitePro1. We installed a set of those on a building for a 4.5" OD pipe and put a Radiowaves HP3 on it. Heavy shit. On 3/31/2016 6:38 PM, Josh Luthman wrote: Where did you find the double angle iron wall brackets? Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 W

Re: [AFMUG] Another ground question

2016-03-31 Thread George Skorup
ou might have a ground loop. Are you seeing a DC or AC voltage? *From:* George Skorup <mailto:geo...@cbcast.com> *Sent:* Thursday, March 31, 2016 5:32 PM *To:* af@afmug.com <mailto:af@afmug.com> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Another ground question

Re: [AFMUG] Another ground question

2016-03-31 Thread George Skorup
hman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Mar 31, 2016 9:55 PM, "Jaime Solorza" mailto:losguyswirel...@gmail.com>> wrote: OK I will get a new phone... but first suffer On Mar 31,

Re: [AFMUG] WTB: 900mhz single pol horizontal 60 to 90 degree sector.

2016-04-01 Thread George Skorup
The best F/B you will find in a 900 sector is Til-Tek. They are big and expensive, but if you gotta have performance, those are it. Sorry, I do not have any spares. On 4/1/2016 2:11 PM, Brandon Yuchasz wrote: Just want the subject says I would like to but one single pol sector 60 to 90 degre

[AFMUG] WTS: Stingers

2016-04-01 Thread George Skorup
We have some NIB 2.4 SuperStingers (qty 3) and regular 5.7 Stingers (qty 4). They are HORIZONTAL pol. We use V-pol only in those bands and these were shipped to us by mistake. Been sitting on them for a year or so. If anyone can use them, pay shipping and you can have them. Hit me off-list.

Re: [AFMUG] Tesla Model 3... who else is getting one?

2016-04-01 Thread George Skorup
And GM still won't get rid of active fuel management. Instead, they enable it in eco mode only on the '16 'vette. I absolutely hate it in the LC9 in my Silverado. It saves no fuel. Those lifters are noisy pieces of shit. And the AFM cylinders burn oil. EGR sends it right back in and carbons up

Re: [AFMUG] Tesla Model 3... who else is getting one?

2016-04-01 Thread George Skorup
Tritium illuminates reticles on some of my scopes, too. I assume that's what you're talking about anyway. It's sealed inside of an aluminum tube, how bad could it be? Meh. On 4/1/2016 10:20 PM, Josh Reynolds wrote: I can't count the amount of tritium in my house on two hands. And we always h

Re: [AFMUG] Curious power input power problem

2016-04-02 Thread George Skorup
You'd need to disconnect the AC from it and listen for the relay to click. If it doesn't click, then it's on battery. If your DC output voltage is <27, then it's on battery. I have like a dozen deployed. They will not run on the AC at <100V input. We get that all the time at grain legs. They'r

[AFMUG] Traco BCMU360

2016-04-02 Thread George Skorup
FYI on this thing. The "remote shutdown" contact is an internal battery disconnect ONLY. The regular BCM24/48/A is a true shutdown and battery disconnect. I'm glad I tested this at one of the BCMU sites a couple weeks ago. Close it, relay clicks, everything is still on. Remove input, everything

Re: [AFMUG] Traco BCMU360

2016-04-02 Thread George Skorup
t of remote shutdown if the device commanding the remote shutdown (or the wireless gear and router that gives you remote access) need power. How is that going to work? I must be missing something. -Original Message- From: George Skorup Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2016 10:59 PM To: af@afmug.com

Re: [AFMUG] Traco BCMU360

2016-04-02 Thread George Skorup
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Re: [AFMUG] Traco BCMU360

2016-04-02 Thread George Skorup
elay output and control the TSP. I don't know if you could parallel them. -Original Message- From: George Skorup Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2016 11:26 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Traco BCMU360 No, the BCMU360 does not have the remote control capability for a TSP power su

Re: [AFMUG] PSA - check your generators!

2016-04-03 Thread George Skorup
Propane On 4/3/2016 7:09 PM, Josh Luthman wrote: I've had a handful of generators that always started on the first pull. Until today. Got another one for the site but started tearing apart the old one and I think it's a bad carb, something I'll have someone else take a look at. Mine are al

Re: [AFMUG] PSA - check your generators!

2016-04-04 Thread George Skorup
batteries on all generators. That is the most important bit of data you need to monitor. -Original Message----- From: George Skorup Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2016 9:43 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] PSA - check your generators! Propane On 4/3/2016 7:09 PM, Josh Luthman wrote:

Re: [AFMUG] PSA - check your generators!

2016-04-04 Thread George Skorup
Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Apr 4, 2016 12:57 PM, "George Skorup" <mailto:geo...@cbcast.com>> wrote: We've started our little Yamaha on a 20# tank at -15F before. It can be a bitch to get started

Re: [AFMUG] PSA - check your generators!

2016-04-04 Thread George Skorup
16 1:51 PM, George Skorup wrote: Yup. If you have a marina near you, they will most likely have ethanol-free gas. You'll pay a little bit more for it though. We keep a couple cheap gas inverter generators around for spares, but we primarily use the Yamaha w/ propane. My truck is apparently

Re: [AFMUG] IniteNet 60 GHz radio iperf tests?

2016-04-04 Thread George Skorup
Chuck, what's the model number? On 4/4/2016 8:21 PM, Mike Hammett wrote: I gotta see when the next Ideal sale is. :-) - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions

Re: [AFMUG] Refurb UPS dealers?

2016-04-04 Thread George Skorup
I've had two of these running in the NOC for about two years. TRIPP LITE SMART3000RMXL2U. Just using the internal batteries. They have a blue (48v) external connector too. Not even on-line/dual-conversion. The AVR seems to handle our crappy utility power just fine. Sensitivity set to medium for

Re: [AFMUG] Canopy 450 Cacti

2016-04-05 Thread George Skorup
Yup. It would be nice if they could give us something like 0=QPSK MIMO-A, 1=QPSK MIMO-B, 2=16QAM MIMO-A, etc. But really, if you graph SNR for both polarities and signal strength ratio on the SM, then you can get an idea of the downlink rate. And the other issue with tracking rates is that th

[AFMUG] MikroTik FTC

2016-04-05 Thread George Skorup
This MikroTik media converter thingamajig. Is it dumb or managed?

Re: [AFMUG] MikroTik FTC

2016-04-05 Thread George Skorup
Damn. Well that's lame. On 4/5/2016 7:41 PM, Stefan Englhardt wrote: dumb Ursprüngliche Nachricht Von: George Skorup Datum: 06.04.2016 02:29 (GMT+01:00) An: af@afmug.com Betreff: [AFMUG] MikroTik FTC

Re: [AFMUG] changing company name with ARIN

2016-04-05 Thread George Skorup
I changed our corporate domain name once (really long to a new really short one) so I went in and started editing POC records. They though the corp/org was changing ownership. I had to explain that it was simply the domain name and not the organization changing. Then they were cool with it. He

Re: [AFMUG] MikroTik FTC

2016-04-05 Thread George Skorup
I was hoping it was managed so that we can monitor Rx power levels. Oh well. On 4/5/2016 10:54 PM, Stefan Englhardt wrote: Cheap and works. Ursprüngliche Nachricht Von: George Skorup Datum: 06.04.2016 03:52 (GMT+01:00) An: af@afmug.com Betreff: Re: [AFMUG] MikroTik FTC

Re: [AFMUG] MikroTik FTC

2016-04-05 Thread George Skorup
ntary. On 4/5/2016 11:28 PM, Eric Kuhnke wrote: It's a media converter, over what IP data connection is it supposed to speak SNMP or report DOM data from the optic? On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 9:04 PM, George Skorup <mailto:geo...@cbcast.com>> wrote: I was hoping it was managed so

Re: [AFMUG] 6 & 11 Ghz Dish?

2016-04-06 Thread George Skorup
That's what Long-Lines did back in the day. Today on say 4' dishes, you'd probably have to get a custom feed and combiner network designed and built. Maybe Chuck? On 4/6/2016 2:20 PM, Gino Villarini wrote: Such monster exists?

Re: [AFMUG] 9 sectors @ 40*

2016-04-06 Thread George Skorup
That's the 1.21 gigatower. Two rings of 6x60. On 4/6/2016 6:30 PM, Craig Schmaderer wrote: I was thinking of stacking 12 450i aps with 6 60degree abcabc than 6 more right on top at defdef so example a would be on top of d giving it 40mhz gaurd band. With the new 30mhz and maybe 40mhz channel si

Re: [AFMUG] Trenching, drilling, plowing

2016-04-06 Thread George Skorup
Depth not distance? On 4/6/2016 8:08 PM, Josh Luthman wrote: Why would you plow for 2 feet or less? Wouldn't a shovel be easier for that? Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Apr 6, 2016 8:59 PM, "Chuck Hogg"

Re: [AFMUG] PPPoE with VLAN on Cambium

2016-04-06 Thread George Skorup
Enable VLAN on the AP, save and reboot. Set Default Port VID to the desired VLAN ID# on the SM(s), save and reboot. That should put the PPPoE/NAT interface on that VID. I haven't messed with NAT and VLANs on Canopy though. The AP with VLAN enabled basically becomes a VLAN trunking device. So

[AFMUG] LP and NG on genset?

2016-04-07 Thread George Skorup
We're going to be putting in one of the Generac 1800RPM quiet models at our office (so the neighbors won't bitch too much about the noise of a 3600). So here's one of the potential problems we're worried about, because it happened. They shut off the natural gas after the tornado last year becau

Re: [AFMUG] 2.5 or 5 Frame Question

2016-04-07 Thread George Skorup
Yep, all FSK is 2.5 framing except for 900 which is 5ms. On 4/7/2016 10:29 AM, Bill Prince wrote: IIRC, FSK is 2.5 ms. bp On 4/7/2016 6:21 AM, Tyson Burris @ Internet Communications Inc wrote: Ok Geeks, � I have a simple question that we cannot get a straight answer on.� (different a

Re: [AFMUG] LP and NG on genset?

2016-04-07 Thread George Skorup
too with this air mixer device. The NG companies call them a carburetor. I think it just mixes a fixed amount of air with the LP and sends it down the line at the right pressure. -Original Message----- From: George Skorup Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2016 12:04 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject:

Re: [AFMUG] LP and NG on genset?

2016-04-07 Thread George Skorup
Nice. What size and which transfer switch did you use? On 4/7/2016 2:43 PM, Josh Reynolds wrote: Here's our new baby. https://www.dropbox.com/sc/ctcqnbl1cun088e/AAA19j1kF8M9gaCPX_6CVMr4a On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 2:29 PM, George Skorup wrote: We're most likely going to get the 22kw.

Re: [AFMUG] LP and NG on genset?

2016-04-07 Thread George Skorup
48Kw, Ford v8 on NG Generac RTSW200A3 On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 2:49 PM, George Skorup wrote: Nice. What size and which transfer switch did you use? On 4/7/2016 2:43 PM, Josh Reynolds wrote: Here's our new baby. https://www.dropbox.com/sc/ctcqnbl1cun088e/AAA19j1kF8M9gaCPX_6CVMr4a On Thu, A

Re: [AFMUG] LP and NG on genset?

2016-04-07 Thread George Skorup
Which Generac doesn't offer on these. I don't want to piss away a 5yr warranty from the get-go. On 4/7/2016 6:48 PM, Chuck McCown wrote: Yes, if you want to permanently change it over, but there are dual regulators and the air mixing device. -Original Message----- From: Geo

[AFMUG] PacketFlux stand-by controller

2016-04-09 Thread George Skorup
Can the PacketFlux controller's mains monitor transformers take both 120v legs (4 total to monitor) or do I need to put in two external 240>120 step-downs?

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