I know for a fact at least one person on the other list you and I share is doing it. It was suggested to me a few months ago.
Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” --- Winston Churchill On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Kurt Fankhauser <k...@wavelinc.com> wrote: > Is anyone here currently using 3 YAGI's to achieve 360 degree coverage with > 3 Canopy 900 radio's? How is this working for you? > > Reason I am asking is because the 3 sectors are so huge that the windload > on > the tower is too much and looking for alternatives. > > 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 Tom DeReggi > Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2010 12:53 PM > To: sarn...@info-ed.com; WISPA General List > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Looking for iput on 900MHz H-Pol > SectorChoices.Nothealthcare, taxes or government related......... > > SuperPass is an excellent antenna brand. The founder has several unique > patents in antenna technologies, that other antenna manufacturers would > love > > to get their hands on. There are several uique end results they offer... 1) > They tend to make it possible to make "shorter" antennas for similar gain. > For example with 5.x sectors, the make some of the most compact sector > antennas on the market. 2) They can make them very cost effectively, and > still have them perform well. These are great for repeaters, where there > is > > a low budget, and cosmetics and size is a concern, and closer to the ground > where less durable mounts are perfectly acceptable. > > Now.... everybody cant be everthing to everybody. Just like anything else > in > > this industry, and Provider needs to define what they need and pick an > antenna that matches their specific need. SuperPass is NOT a MTI antenna, > they really serve two different market segments. > > MTIs are EXPENSIVE and LARGE and HEAVY, the exact opposite of a Superpass > antenna. Of course the MTI is going to outperform the Superpass in most > cases. The MTI was purpose built to get optimal RF characteristics out of > the technology, and the trade off is expense, size, and weight. But the MTI > makes a VERY high quality antenna, if not one of the very best, from the > perspective of RF pattern, isolation, and sturdiness. > > In 900Mhz, our personal favorite are the Tiltek sector antennas. We like > them because they have excellent front to back isolation and quick drop on > beamwidth edge comparatively, have rock solid mounting hardware thats easy > to adjust, and priced a bot lower than other high end antennas. We find > Winncom to be a good source for these, although I'm sure there are other > good sources. The Tilteks have both a Dual Pol and Single pol options. I > dont think its possible to buy a better antenna. Again, with quality, also > comes size. This is a 4ft by 1.5ft antenna at about 10db for 120deg. > (Thats > > not exact db spec) > > There also becomes a convenience factor to consider. We Almost always use > the Trango built in antennas when we can, and I've heard that people using > Canopy are happy with the Canopy brand integrated 900Sector. > > When the sectors quality reallty starts to matter is when trying to > colocatemultiple antennas near each other to get full 360 degrees. > With the Tilteks, we can get 3 120degree sectors of the same polarity > colocated without self interference (meaning all on adjacent channels), > fasten directly to a Guyed tower structure (meaning very little horizontal > seperation, maybe 3ft) if we put about 15ft of verticle seperation between > each antenna. > > Originally, we put them back to back, which worked way better than the > other > > native antennas could. The excellent F/B ratio and tight beamwidth made > that > > possible. But as our buildout grew, and we had more links and varying > signal strengths, and more close to beamwidth edges than others, we > recognized a clear improvement when we added the verticle seperation also. > > Tom DeReggi > RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc > IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Scottie Arnett" <sarn...@info-ed.com> > To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> > Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 1:16 AM > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Looking for iput on 900MHz H-Pol Sector > Choices.Nothealthcare, taxes or government related......... > > > > To start out with, I have heard nothing but bad news about Super Pass. I > > have never used them, so I am NOT speaking from experience. I am also a > > 80% or more Canopy shop...so take that as you will. For Canopy, I have > > used 120 degree H-pol Tiltek sectors...they work !@@@!...@!@ great! But > they > > > are expensive!!!! I am one to buy the close to what I think is best first > > and worry about the consequences later. I sleep better. > > > > Now in your situation, the Super Pass may work great? The only 900 Mhz I > > have used is Canopy. Canopy supposedly has the magic sauce of GPS timing. > > On the Tiltek sectors, with Canopy, I have customers out to 10.5 miles > > away and could have further but that is the the MAX AP distance that is > > set on my Moto 900 AP's. > > > > If you are trying to go PTP, I can offer you some suggestions on things > > much cheaper. If you are going to try PtMP, my suggestion will be Canopy > > unless you expect less than 20 subs. > > > > Scott > > > > ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- > > From: "Robert West" <robert.w...@just-micro.com> > > Reply-To: WISPA General List <wireless@wispa.org> > > Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 21:02:10 -0400 > > > >>I'm in need of a 120 or a couple of 90 degree 900MHz H-POL sector > >>antenna(s). Not looking forward to buying worthless CRAP just because > >>I've never had to buy these before so I'm asking who uses what and if it > >>works great. I've done the Omni path, okay but noisy, but this new > >>install needs some decent signal for 2 to 4 miles. Mostly clear path > but, > > >>ofcourse , into the trees to the CPEs. > >> > >>I've looked at the Super Pass solution and as we all know, I'm a cheap > SOB > > >>so it fits my budget but I'd gladly pay bigger $$$ for top quality if > it's > > >>deserved. > >> > >>Thanks......... > >> > >>Bob- > >> > >>The cheap SOB > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > >>-------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------ > >>WISPA Wants You! 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