While the 11 has issues and other vendors have far superior products - something was wrong if you faded in the rain at 5 miles.
> On Apr 27, 2020, at 11:51 PM, Kurt Fankhauser <lists.wavel...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > This is why I'm moving away from UBNT for 11ghz backhauls. They jacked the > price up on the stand alone units. Stock has been non-existent since > November/December which was the last time I was able to order stand alone > AF11 radios. Now a rumor they will never sell them again without their crappy > dish? Which BTW has steel bolts on that you know will turn to rust in a > couple years which really pisses me off. I know that other brands cost about > 2x-2.5x like Aviat but for the same licensed 80mhz channel you can get > 1.4gbps full duplex and I have never seen a AF11 radio actually push over 600 > meg. Had a 5 mile and 6 mile AF11 link fade in the rain just as bad as a AF24 > would on a 3-4 mile shot. I'm going all Aviat from here on out, 11, 18, > 80ghz. Their pricing is extremely competitive. Ken is awesome, always emails > me back within 30 minutes with any questions I have. Hell you can buy a 80ghz > link that is keyed up for 10gbps full duplex for $5200 out the door. Siklu's > promo for $4200 link will only do 2gbps which you can't even get from Baltic > because they are sold out. > >> On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 5:14 PM Chuck Macenski <ch...@macenski.com> wrote: >> Sorry, ignore that. I will forward this issue internally so that the AF11 is >> added. So many changes, so little time... >> >>> On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 4:10 PM Chuck Macenski <ch...@macenski.com> wrote: >>> https://www.ui.com/distributors/stock-locator/ >>> >>>> On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 3:33 PM Nate Burke <n...@blastcomm.com> wrote: >>>> From Streakwave? They're the one's that told me this morning they were >>>> never going to get them. >>>> >>>>> On 4/27/2020 3:30 PM, Cassidy B. Larson wrote: >>>>> Streakwave was telling me that originally too, but it was during the >>>>> change of the model number of the standalone radio. Now that the model >>>>> number for the stand alone radio is changed, price is a bit higher, but >>>>> they are once again available. >>>>> >>>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>>> >>>>>> On Apr 27, 2020, at 14:26, Nate Burke <n...@blastcomm.com> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> One distributor I talked to said they were being told by UBNT that >>>>>> their Single Radio order would never be fulfilled.... >>>>>> >>>>>>> On 4/27/2020 3:20 PM, Chuck Macenski wrote: >>>>>>> That rumor is incorrect. The AF11 radio is available as a stand-alone >>>>>>> SKU. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> https://store.ui.com/collections/operator-airfiber/products/af-11 >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Chuck >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 3:11 PM Sean Heskett <af...@zirkel.us> wrote: >>>>>>>> Why in the world would you buy crappy radios from a crappy company >>>>>>>> that likes to frivolously sue its customers and distributors? They >>>>>>>> also seem to like to discontinue products at the drop of a hat. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Not gonna build my business model around a crappy company like that. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> 2 cents >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> -Sean >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 1:05 PM Nate Burke <n...@blastcomm.com> wrote: >>>>>>>>> I've heard a rumor that the only way to buy an AF11 radio now is in a >>>>>>>>> kit with Radio+Single Diplexer+Dish. Single radios cannot be >>>>>>>>> purchased. How can you keep spares of equipment if that's the case? >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> The price has gone up too. We were getting bare radios for $585 last >>>>>>>>> year. Now if you break the cost out of the Dishes and Diplexers from >>>>>>>>> the Kit, it's $680 for just the radio. And places that have bare >>>>>>>>> radios >>>>>>>>> listed in their online stores (but have no stock) have a single radio >>>>>>>>> in >>>>>>>>> the $900 range. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Is UBNT Just trying to kill the 3rd party Antenna market? Or were >>>>>>>>> they >>>>>>>>> having problems interfacing to other dishes because of their unique >>>>>>>>> N >>>>>>>>> connector method? The part that really annoys me is that I can't >>>>>>>>> just >>>>>>>>> have spare radios sitting on the shelf. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> -- >>>>>>>>> AF mailing list >>>>>>>>> AF@af.afmug.com >>>>>>>>> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >>>>>>>> -- >>>>>>>> AF mailing list >>>>>>>> AF@af.afmug.com >>>>>>>> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> AF mailing list >>>>>> AF@af.afmug.com >>>>>> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> AF mailing list >>>> AF@af.afmug.com >>>> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> -- >> AF mailing list >> AF@af.afmug.com >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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