I've seen the pac wireless grid feedhorns get very tiny cracks in them, and give fits just like this in hard driving rains. I took liquid electrical tape and mopped the feedhorn all up and havn't had a problem since.
Kurt Fankhauser WAVELINC P.O. Box 126 Bucyrus, OH 44820 419-562-6405 www.wavelinc.com -----Original Message----- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of MDK Sent: Saturday, November 21, 2009 12:04 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Odd 5 ghz behavior All points are 25db pacwireless grids. -------------------------------------------------- From: "Chuck Profito" <cprof...@cv-access.com> Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 8:04 PM To: <e...@wisp-router.com>; "'WISPA General List'" <wireless@wispa.org> Subject: Re: [WISPA] Odd 5 ghz behavior > How about putting a dish on the ap side, maybe with a dome, would there > be > enough lobe for the short hop? > > -----Original Message----- > From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On > Behalf Of e...@wisp-router.com > Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 7:18 PM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Odd 5 ghz behavior > > Sounds like one of the feed horns are bad or you have freznel blockage > that > affects the link when drenched. > Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile > > -----Original Message----- > From: "MDK" <rea...@muddyfrogwater.us> > Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:08:07 > To: WISPA General List<wireless@wispa.org> > Subject: [WISPA] Odd 5 ghz behavior > > > I have a backhaul feed that completely flips out when it rains. But, > only > > when it rains heavy, and only for a short time. > > Yes, we took the cables apart, and no, there wasn't water in the cable > connections. But, water gets into stuff slowly, and ... err... stays > there. > > This, will be perfectly fine and when a sudden rainstorm hit will go from > working as it should to fully dead in minutes. And, when the rain SLOWS > (not stops), it comes back up again and will restore to full RSSI faster > than I can get to it. Pacwireless grids at both ends, vertical > polarization, and no noise that I know of, other than self inflicted, if I > set stuff wrong. This is a shared backhaul... One end is 13 miles, > one > > is 3 miles. The near one is off the edge of the beam a bit, mostly due > to > elevation settings, and being off the center of the beam by 5 or 6 degrees > horizontally. The AP end sees the clients go weak and vanish. Both > of > the client ends see the same thing. If it stops raining, or slows to a > spit, by 20 minutes we have good RSSI and the quality starts back up. > > The quality falls first, then RSSI when the link starts to fail. > > I'm baffled by this behavior, and have replaced the radio, pigtail, pulled > the cable ends off to inspect for water, and didn't find any. But, where > I > > HAVE had water leaks, the water gets in, the link dies, and stays dead. > This changes quickly, having a few minutes lag behind a storm. For > instance, a sudden 20 minute downpour will see the link die, but by the > time > > it stops raining and I can drive the 10 minutes to the site, it's up and > RSSI is fine. > > I have 2 other nearly parallel links at the same site, none of them seem > to > have this behavior. I do notice smallish losses in RSSI during hard > rains, > but nothing like going from high 60's to "can't detect" in minutes. > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > WISPA Wants You! 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