I wouldn't exactly call a 10 mile link in 11 GHz a short link.
We have a similar link (almost exactly the same distance and same size
dishes). You may have gotten lucky. We got ours close enough that we
knew we weren't on side lobes, but if the signal level is per spec, you
got it done.
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On 12/12/2014 7:50 AM, That One Guy via Af wrote:
Weve never gone above 2'
we finished installing our 11ghz link yesterday and had the antennas
rough aligned, one side is 3' one side is 4'. I expected the tighter
patterns would make it harder to find the initial link but they
actually linked up right off the bat and it was right on the projected
power levels.
This is only 10 miles, so we have visual on the path.
We did a little rough alignment yesterday, and will do the fine
alignment today. when we we roughing it there was a good amount of
travel on the antenna (4') side we were on and only a couple db
change. do larger antennas on such a short path give you a little more
leniency in alignment or something? we will do full horizontal and
vertical panning today to make sure we arent in side lobes, just
curious is there is more slop in this scenario.
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