Also, make sure that FCC Applications have been filed before turning these on in the field (even for alignment or testing). The PCN does not provide authorization to transmit, but you can operate under Conditional Authority as long as the FCC Applications have been accepted for filing at the FCC, the applications did not request a waiver, you are not located in a quiet zone, and you are not located within 56.3 kilometers of an international border.
From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Mathew Howard via Af Sent: Friday, December 05, 2014 11:07 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] SAF CFIP Lumina 11ghz setup Yes, you are going to want to have the PCN in hand for configuring to make sure you get frequencies on the right side, TX power, polarity and all that right... I would think it would be pretty safe to assume you're licensed for full power since you had to go with 4' dishes, but I'd still want to check what the PCN says. I don't remember running into any particular problems setting ours up, but it's been a few years. I do not recommend strapping the dish to your back to carry it up the tower... ________________________________ From: Af [af-boun...@afmug.com] on behalf of Jeremy via Af [af@afmug.com] Sent: Friday, December 05, 2014 10:01 AM To: af@afmug.com<mailto:af@afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] SAF CFIP Lumina 11ghz setup Also, all of the details, including transmit power, should be on the PCN. You should have the PCN in hand. If you don't I would print it out. You should also have a path analysis with expected signal strengths, and those come in really handy when you are aligning. If you are not where the path calc says that you should be then you could be on a side lobe On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 8:59 AM, Jeremy <jeremysmi...@gmail.com<mailto:jeremysmi...@gmail.com>> wrote: I haven't used SAF before but I generally set the radios across the room from each other (with no dish) to test the link. They will link up without being next to each other. On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 8:42 AM, That One Guy via Af <af@afmug.com<mailto:af@afmug.com>> wrote: We havent used SAF or done licensed before Im getting ready to bench configure this link, are there any caveats to it? As I understand it from the manual, these ship with transmit turned off, so powering them up wont hurt anything, I just set them side by side with the flanges facing upward and turn the power on to the minimum tx power, this wont hurt them to be transmitting with no antenna load attached? If I leave them on for an extended timeframe will it harm them in this fashion? Im assuming the license gives use permission to install these at maximum radio power? we dont have anything in hand from FCC so I dont know, all I know is we have approval on the link. Any gotchas to setting these up or installing them, beyond figuring out how to get a 4 foot antenna to the top of the grain elevator without denting it -- All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not use a hammer. -- IBM maintenance manual, 1925
