What's the cost on those?

On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 10:53 PM Kurt Fankhauser <lists.wavel...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Don't know if i had something else going on but my AF11 link that was
> showing 650mbps in the interface was never able to pass more than about
> 500mbps, switched to Aviat and wow 1.4bps full duplex is freaking amazing.
>
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 12:58 AM Darin Steffl <darin.ste...@mnwifi.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I messed up that last email. We're upgrading three AF11 links with Aviat
>> this spring. We'll move the AF11 links to other towers that could use more
>> than the 5ghz backhauls are providing.
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 26, 2020, 11:56 PM Darin Steffl <darin.ste...@mnwifi.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Do what Kurt is doing and what I'm fine, replace the AF11 with aviat in
>>> same channels. The increase is from 650mb full duplex to 1400mb full
>>> duplex.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 25, 2020, 3:24 PM <ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Here is a circulator and BPF style.  "Should" work great with very
>>>> little
>>>> loss.
>>>> But expensive.
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: ch...@wbmfg.com
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 1:18 PM
>>>> To: af@af.afmug.com
>>>> Subject: Re: AF11 custom combiner
>>>>
>>>> This is the hybrid combiner version.
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: ch...@wbmfg.com
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 1:06 PM
>>>> To: Nate Burke ; af@af.afmug.com
>>>> Subject: Re: AF11 custom combiner
>>>>
>>>> Now that I think about it, this will not work without sharp bandpass
>>>> filters
>>>> on the transmitters.
>>>> To do what I have drawn here without the filters you would need a hybrid
>>>> combiner on the TX and you will lose another 3 dB in that.
>>>>
>>>> So 6 dB loss over all from one end to the other.
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: ch...@wbmfg.com
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 1:00 PM
>>>> To: Nate Burke ; af@af.afmug.com
>>>> Subject: AF11 custom combiner
>>>>
>>>> Nate, I am posting this to the list too.  Want to see if I made a
>>>> mistake
>>>> here.  I don't have a ton of experience with the internals of the AF11.
>>>> I think each diplexer feeds a TX and an RX right?
>>>> Not sure how good the RX input filters are.  So I used a splitter rather
>>>> than circulators.
>>>>
>>>> Circulators would have less loss but you have to have a pretty sharp
>>>> bandpass filter on the front of the receivers to do that trick.
>>>> You could add the filters.
>>>>
>>>> Not sure this will work without TX filters too but I think it will.
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Nate Burke
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 11:15 AM
>>>> To: ch...@wbmfg.com
>>>> Subject: Re: Re: AF11 custom combiner
>>>>
>>>> Both paths are dual polarity v/h
>>>> SiteA
>>>> Radio1 TX 11505
>>>> Radio2 TX 11225
>>>>
>>>> SiteB
>>>> Radio1 TX 11015
>>>> Radio2 TX 10735
>>>>
>>>> Those are different Diplexers on the AF11 Radios  11015x11505 is the
>>>> high diplexer  11225x10735 is the low diplexer.  If they were just
>>>> single pol licenses, I'm already doing that with 2 radios on 1 AF11
>>>> dish, one radio on V one radio on H.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Nate
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 3/25/2020 12:07 PM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote:
>>>> > 10735 is pretty close to 11015.  Would these be tx frequencies?
>>>> > Need to know what is RX and what is TX at this site.  Also what is on
>>>> what
>>>> > polarization.
>>>> > -----Original Message----- From: Nate Burke Sent: Wednesday, March 25,
>>>> > 2020 10:55 AM To: ch...@wbmfg.com Subject: Re: AF11 custom combiner
>>>> > The boss is asking the questions, and in his mind it should be as
>>>> simple
>>>> > as wire-nutting the 3 coax's together.  So I have to follow up with
>>>> why
>>>> > that won't work and present a solution for him.
>>>> >
>>>> > Channels we have are
>>>> > 11505x11015 (high)
>>>> > 11225x10735 (low)
>>>> >
>>>> > Thanks,
>>>> > Nate
>>>> >
>>>> > On 3/25/2020 11:10 AM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote:
>>>> >> Yes, you can do that and it is lossy.
>>>> >> Circulators and splitters are frequently used.
>>>> >> Being high/low licenses makes things a bit more difficult.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> If you can give me details as to what radios and frequencies you
>>>> want to
>>>> >> put on the AF11 dish I can think on it a bit.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> -----Original Message----- From: Nate Burke
>>>> >> Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 9:44 AM
>>>> >> To: Chuck McCown
>>>> >> Subject: AF11 custom combiner
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Chuck, We've been using your AF11 REMEC adapters in a couple
>>>> places.  I
>>>> >> have a location where I can't physically add another Dish, but I do
>>>> have
>>>> >> 2 licensed channels to the site.  1 high band and 1 low band. Is
>>>> there
>>>> >> a way to combine 2 dual band radios onto the same dish?  I already
>>>> have
>>>> >> the AF11 dish installed, so if there was just a way to do a
>>>> >> splitter/combiner with the N Connectors, that would be ideal.  I
>>>> didn't
>>>> >> know if such a beast existed, or if it was something in your
>>>> >> engineering/production toolbag, or if it's technically impossible.
>>>> >> Maybe using the Coax would be too much loss, and the only way to do
>>>> it
>>>> >> would be with a feedhorn combiner, and the remec adapters.  I thought
>>>> >> this might be something that you would just know off the top of your
>>>> >> head.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Thank you,
>>>> >> Nate Burke
>>>> >> Blast Communications
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