BTW, I have used an omni with 7 degree electrical downtilt at a grain leg in
a small town where I mainly wanted to cover a 1-2 mile radius and had a lot
of interference coming from T6 sites in all directions.
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-----Original Message-----
From: George Skorup
Sent: Monday, June 08, 2015 8:22 AM
To: af@afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] storms
Nope, just regular 360's. SS top and bottom. Timing via SyncPipes. No
other radios at either site had any issues (both Canopy and UBNT). I
have Cyclones on a number of other sites and they're all fine. A few
sites with 5750-360's always get random reboots during thunderstorms.
The logs say power-on reset. And only the Cyclones, no other radios. I
had one take a direct lightning strike a couple years ago. The antenna
was gone and the board was black. Sometimes you just get unlucky.
I like LMG stuff, it's rugged, but yeah, any FSK stuff we have to put
up, I'm just going with connectorized radios and external antennas now.
Luckily we do have two APs and the same L-com/Hyperlink antennas LMG
uses on the Cyclones. I'll probably end up ripping them apart and
swapping the boards out. But I think we're going to be doing the same
thing you're doing, using 3.6 450 as a replacement for 2.4 because the
noise is just horrendous in all but the most extreme rural areas. We
have one 2.4 450 up at a quiet tower, but you can't get around the noise
at the SM side from the customer's 40MHz wide router, and the bigger
houses end up getting two of them.
On 6/7/2015 10:33 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
We got some rain this morning, but all the bad stuff they were predicting
for this afternoon went south. Apparently not far enough south to miss
you.
Are those the Cyclones with the built-in sync and surge protection? I had
a lot of those get fried in storms.
Actually after having my 2450-360 in Scarboro repaired a couple times, I
went to just a connectorized AP and an omni, with a Polyphaser on the
bottom of the omni. That might be your quickest fix unless you have
spares.
I've had Cyclones go flaky after a rainstorm and fix themselves once the
sun came out, they seem susceptible to condensation in the RJ45 jacks.
Most of the time they've been fried though. You could take a can of
Dust-Off when you climb though, see if you get lucky.
-----Original Message----- From: George Skorup
Sent: Sunday, June 07, 2015 10:06 PM
To: af@afmug.com
Subject: [AFMUG] storms
Anybody else have the lightning gods hate on you? Got two Cyclone
2450-360's down from the storms tonight. Early morning, yay! Not. Drove
through some light hail and torrential rain, couldn't see past the hood.
That was fun.
One of the Cyclones says the default plug is inserted. I really wish we
could just set the damn thing to ignore the default plug for times like
this. But no.
