That's definitely enlightening. I'll be doing the climbing and I'm really expecting to do fiber and two wire for 250 feet leaving 20' cat5 eth/power/sync runs.
Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Jul 22, 2015 7:15 PM, "George Skorup" <geo...@cbcast.com> wrote: > I have a connectorized ePMP on a 2' dish at 125 feet on a 50kW FM site. > The bays start at 420 feet though. And it's 50kW EIRP. Something like > 15-16kW actually on the transmission line. There's also a low power station > at 250 feet, but it's under 3kW I think. The 450 AP at 225 feet sees some > CRC errors sometimes. The ePMP radio doesn't have any problems though. The > guys didn't listen to me and ran our cat5 bundle right next to the high > power transmission line. "But there were waveguide brackets there, it was > so easy!" I smash your face now. > > On 7/22/2015 4:00 PM, Josh Luthman wrote: > >> Has anyone had good luck on FM stations recently? I would *LOVE* for the >> radios to have an SFP, but it seems that's just not available. I'm wonder >> if fiber up ~250' and then 10-20 foot shielded cat5 would be sufficient to >> protect the ethernet ports from such high power. >> >> I'm also weary about getting on the tower for having such high power 250 >> feet away, but that's a secondary issue. >> >> Josh Luthman >> Office: 937-552-2340 >> Direct: 937-552-2343 >> 1100 Wayne St >> Suite 1337 >> Troy, OH 45373 >> > >
