Dan - I too had a panasonic 900 (the diversity antenna 900 mhz model) - I had to dump it when I got the senao/engenius. I don't miss it! (and it was good) but I think panasonic went downhill after that phone. My senao also killed people's ricochet modems in my neighborhood. Oh well. The good news is it only kills 900 Mhz stuf when you use it. The seimens phones xmit a beacon 24x7 regardless of if you use it or not!
When you erect your omni, consider getting a nema 4 + box and putting the senao base inside the box, right under the omni (assuming you don't have extreme hot weather climate) - weatherproof it all, and run your phone line and 12VDC up to the senao base, keeping the RF link to the omni < 3 feet and you'll be shocked at the performance. Just keep walking and saying "Can you hear me now? Good." The senao kit includes like 50 feet of crappy cable. ditch that. Make a short good quality jumper to your antenna and mount the base nearby - life will be good, as no power will be lost in the cable. Even at 900, cable loss is miserable. You can also find some good 900 Mhz High Gain omnis made by ham antenna companies (diamond/comet/etc) - While the senao model offers I think 6 or 7 dBi gain, the ham models go up past 13+ dBi. They're also 7' long. I installed one of those and one of the first senao 900's in a corporate environment that was 1 block wide by 2 blocks long - the handset covered EVERY building, all floors, basements, etc. I mounted the antenna upside down to take advantage of the electrical downtilt to make uptilt, which I needed due to the strange mounting location I got stuck with to hit the center of the campus. I had R&D labs in every building and walked 4 miles a day at work - the senao eliminated voicemail for me once I put my extension on it. I did wear the numbers off the keypad on that handset after a couple years and had to re-paint them! Everett > > I have the EnGenius (Senao) 900Mhz phone (2 1-line base units and 2 > handsets) and I love it. It works about a block in my neighborhood with the > base on the bottom floor in my house. I have an omni that I've been meaning > to install on the roof for greater range. > > It's not rich as far as the features but it's a good phone that works well. > It does however interfere with anything that's 900Mhz. I had an analog > panasonic 900Mhz phone that I had to get rid of due to interference. > > Dan. > > On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 06:19:40PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > My personal experience - I owned one of the first gigasets siemens came out > > with ( the $200 / multi handset one)- - the phone was miserable w/o the 802.11 > > and when the 802.11 came along, the phone got worse. I opened it up and killed > > the 802.11 xmitter/receiver and turned it into a $200 desk phone and answering > > machine. > > > > Avoid the siemens phones and 802.11 Personal experience only. Buy a senao > > 900 mhz 1 line or 4 line phone and be happy. > > > > Everett > > > > > > > > > > Anyone has Siemens Gigaset 8825 2-Line expandable wireless phone (system)? How > > > is it coexisting with your wireless LAN? > > > > > > Apolinaras "Apollo" Sinkevicius > > > Carmel Music & Entertainment, LLC > > > web-site: http://carmelme.com > > > ________________________________ > > > Having an event in Chicago, or would you like to bring Chicago entertainment > > > to your event? Give Carmel Music & Entertainment a call for the finest > > > entertainment available in Chicago. > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------- > > > Visit CARMEL MUSIC & ENTERTAINMENT website http://carmelme.com > > > -- > > > general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> > > > [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > > > > > > -- > > general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> > > [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
