Re: [WISPA] omni upside down

2010-01-31 Thread John Thomas
General List Subject: [WISPA] omni upside down While traveling around, I've noticed a few towers with omnis mounted upside down with a neighbor omni mounted right side up. Whats the purpose in this? -RickG

Re: [WISPA] omni upside down

2010-01-29 Thread John Thomas
To: WISPA General List Subject: [WISPA] omni upside down While traveling around, I've noticed a few towers with omnis mounted upside down with a neighbor omni mounted right side up. Whats the purpose in this? -RickG

Re: [WISPA] omni upside down

2010-01-29 Thread RickG
- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of RickG Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 2:55 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: [WISPA] omni upside down While traveling around, I've noticed a few towers with omnis mounted upside down with a neighbor

Re: [WISPA] omni upside down

2010-01-28 Thread Scott Lambert
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 03:55:02PM -0500, RickG wrote: While traveling around, I've noticed a few towers with omnis mounted upside down with a neighbor omni mounted right side up. Whats the purpose in this? They could be vertically polarized dipole antennas. -- Scott Lambert

Re: [WISPA] omni upside down

2010-01-28 Thread Matt
While traveling around, I've noticed a few towers with omnis mounted upside down with a neighbor omni mounted right side up. Whats the purpose in this? In our landmobile/paging side we have done this for years. The antenna MUST support this feature. There is typically a drain plug on the top

[WISPA] omni upside down

2010-01-27 Thread RickG
While traveling around, I've noticed a few towers with omnis mounted upside down with a neighbor omni mounted right side up. Whats the purpose in this? -RickG WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/

Re: [WISPA] omni upside down

2010-01-27 Thread Eje Gustafsson
. / Eje -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of RickG Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 2:55 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: [WISPA] omni upside down While traveling around, I've noticed a few towers with omnis mounted

Re: [WISPA] omni upside down

2010-01-27 Thread RickG
, January 27, 2010 2:55 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: [WISPA] omni upside down While traveling around, I've noticed a few towers with omnis mounted upside down with a neighbor omni mounted right side up. Whats the purpose in this? -RickG

Re: [WISPA] omni upside down

2010-01-27 Thread Justin Wilson
: [WISPA] omni upside down Thanks! Is there any advantage for a WISP to do this? -RickG On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Eje Gustafsson e...@wisp-router.com wrote: Those are more than likely cell phone sites that have those big whip antennas going up and down (believe they are 800Mhz frequency range

Re: [WISPA] omni upside down

2010-01-27 Thread Eje Gustafsson
Subject: Re: [WISPA] omni upside down Thanks! Is there any advantage for a WISP to do this? -RickG On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Eje Gustafsson e...@wisp-router.com wrote: Those are more than likely cell phone sites that have those big whip antennas going up and down (believe

Re: [WISPA] omni upside down

2010-01-27 Thread Brian Webster
Of Eje Gustafsson Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 4:25 PM To: 'WISPA General List' Subject: Re: [WISPA] omni upside down Not much, probably if you need multiple omnis you would install sectors. But if you need antenna diversity and use omnis this is one of the easier way to do it since you just

Re: [WISPA] omni upside down

2010-01-27 Thread Bob Moldashel
A couple of reasons 1. Antenna mounting space reuse. Standoffs have antennas facing up but not down. Allows the use of multiple antennas on one mount. 2. Omni antenna designs that will provide more saturation and downtilt when inverted as an omni has natural uptilt when mounted normally.

Re: [WISPA] omni upside down

2010-01-27 Thread RickG
My guess was #1. Interesting enough, I have several HighGain Omni units http://www.l-com.com/productfamily.aspx?id=6414 that work really well. They dont have the drain hole on the bottom (I had one fill up with water once). At any rate, I have two water towers within a 1/10th of a mile on each

Re: [WISPA] omni upside down

2010-01-27 Thread Leon D. Zetekoff
On 1/27/2010 4:06 PM, RickG wrote: Thanks! Is there any advantage for a WISP to do this? -RickG On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Eje Gustafssone...@wisp-router.com wrote: Those are more than likely cell phone sites that have those big whip antennas going up and down (believe they are

Re: [WISPA] omni upside down

2010-01-27 Thread Marlon K. Schafer
: [WISPA] omni upside down Thanks! Is there any advantage for a WISP to do this? -RickG On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Eje Gustafsson e...@wisp-router.com wrote: Those are more than likely cell phone sites that have those big whip antennas going up and down (believe they are 800Mhz