On the bright side, assembly is much quicker and simpler than the Force 200.
The sad thing is, all they would've had to do to make them left hand mountable, is make the L bracket about a quarter inch wider, and you could've just flipped the radio over. As far as the U-bolt vs the Force200 style mount goes, I don't care much either way... they both have pros and cons that makes it pretty much a wash for me. But going with as large of a u-bolt as they did seems like overkill for an SM... and it's kind of annoying that you need a different size of wrench. Yeah, the LEDs are pretty much useless outside. They really need to make them brighter and/or use a different color that's actually visible in daylight. Having a Force 300-25, 300-16 and 300 CSM also seems more confusing than the old naming system. Overall, I like them. Mechanically, some stuff is slightly worse than the Force 200, and some stuff is slightly better, but nothing I can't deal with. On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 9:13 AM Nate Burke <n...@blastcomm.com> wrote: > We got our first EPMP3000 radio in the air. I'm happy with the > throughput, but Man the Force300 needs a redesign! I would really have > through they would have improved on the Force200 design, which was a > major step up from the Force110. Instead it's slipped way back from a > function and Installation standpoint. > > Only mountable in a single orientation, If you need a left hand mount, > sorry, you're just not going to be able to install a Force300. There is > no way to rotate the mount. For about 30% of our installs, we need to > rotate a Force200 to the other orientation. > Feedhorn now goes in from the back but still secures from the front! > Still have to take the radome off to replace the radio. > A single UBolt for all adjustment. Really need 3 hands to mount the > thing, trying to hold the radio, get the UBolt through and then trying > to get the nuts on it, and trying to hold the radio aligned while > tightening everything down. And why are we back to dealing with Loose > hardware while on a ladder/tower???? > LED's are now even dimmer than previous products! I programed these on > my desk, which is in a dark corner, and could barely see the LED's. > They are completely impossible to see outside. > > The Throughput and Radio technology seem strong, but come on engineers, > ride along on a couple installs while you're in the design phase of a > product. > > > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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