They have spares. Jaime Solorza On Mar 8, 2015 10:44 PM, "Mike Hammett" <af...@ics-il.net> wrote:
> Radios just gone quiet? > > Something between the antenna and the radio mucking things up? > > Probably not practical to take them down and put them on a bench kit? > > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions > http://www.ics-il.com > > <https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL> > <https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb> > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions> > <https://twitter.com/ICSIL> > > ------------------------------ > *From: *"Jaime Solorza" <losguyswirel...@gmail.com> > *To: *"Animal Farm" <af@afmug.com> > *Sent: *Sunday, March 8, 2015 11:22:05 PM > *Subject: *[AFMUG] 18ghz question > > Targeted RSL is -42 at 4.08 miles > Tx power at 14db. Should be 14.5dB ....three different companies have > aligned these dishes before I was asked to try and get the link closer to > targeted figure. On this one -53.1 is best I got. A bit better than others > but not where they want. I took both antennas completed off paths and > started over. Got it to above level. Made sure it was not sidelobe. > These radios are about 6 years old Dragonwave...the client says they were > in mid 40s according to records. What can cause such a difference if > alignment is not an issue? > Jaime Solorza > >