Trust me, anyone at WISPAPALOOSA last week in vegas heard all about this
storm....at least from me ;)
----- Original Message -----
From: Chuck Hogg via Af
To: af@afmug.com
Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 11:57 AM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Finally got it all finished
Nice job. I had a similar affair the week before WISPAPALOOZA.
Regards,
Chuck
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Glen Waldrop via Af <af@afmug.com> wrote:
We had a tower knocked down by a straight line wind last Monday. We got the
new tower up Saturday, temporary equipment online Sunday and the final install
Monday afternoon.
I replaced 2 5GHz feeds, 3 120* 17dBi 802.11g/10MHz sectors and one 15dBi
802.11g/5MHz omni. Had about 16 customers on it, expected a lot more when we
started. The area grew from a few to 20+ really quickly, then just stopped.
The tower is only 75ft with a 20ft pole atop and sits on a rather tall
ridge that is easily 200ft higher than the surrounding ground. I've had a few
customers 14 miles out with a 19dBi panel and near perfect signal.
We replaced the 802.11g equipment with an ARC 13dBi dual pol omni and
RB711UA 2HnD since I had the RB on hand. Took a couple of days to find a clear
channel and get 802.11n working properly, but we're now getting around 15Mbps
over a 5MHz channel. I need to stress it more and see what it is really capable
of. I had a few customers that signal was less than ideal, -77 to -85 depending
on the time of day, humidity and temp. Now the few that were a bit unreliable
are now working beautifully with the new dual polarity set up.
We also replaced the 5GHz feeds that were installed in 2008 to Nanobridge
M5 25dBi, nearly 100Mbps now in place of the 20Mbps I had previously.
I do love the new UNII 1 channels.
I'm going to sleep for a damn week.
