You would need more people then. You can't align the dish without both radios being powered.
You could do two 3 man crews, one at each site. Both install at the same time and they should finish around the same time frame. Align before coming down at all. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Greg Ihnen <os10ru...@gmail.com> wrote: > It looks like for around $150 you could get binoculars with a built in > magnetic compass that you see through the binoculars. Could you use the > binoculars to find an object on the horizon on the right azimuth and then > point the dish there? > > Greg > > On Oct 19, 2010, at 10:46 AM, Mark Nash wrote: > > Question: What tools do you use to blindly put up the first end of a ptp > without having a visual on the other side? > > Details: > > When deploying ptp dishes... One team doing both ends at different times. > > The first dish must be aligned without a connecting radio at the other end. > > We know how to get uptilt/downtilt/azimuth from Radio Mobile. > > Uptilt/downtilt is easy to do with a simple gauge. Azimuth is a different > story. If you can see the site that you're aiming for, no big deal, but > what if you can't? > > We have a number of backhaul upgrades to do in the next few months, and we > have alot of fog here in the mornings this time of year. > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >
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