The funny thing about the pacific northwest is that it's only ITU rain zone
D. We get constant rain and drizzle and grey skies that causes acceptable
fades (like, an 18 GHz link that normally sites at -37 with no rain will
hang out at -49 for days at a time), but major downpour events are
relatively rare. It's the mm/hour...
If I recall correctly some locations that are less famously rainy such as
Baltimore or Chicago actually have more frequent high mm/hour rain events
than Seattle. Thus a link designed to be at max capacity for five nines
will be shorter in Chicago than in Portland or Seattle.
On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 11:36 AM, Bill Prince <part15...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Agreed for the NW where you are. We're in the SF bay area, and we get
> "rain", but not like you guys. For the last 4 years we haven't even gotten
> that.
>
> I know of a couple situations that are getting almost 10 miles on a AF24HD.
>
> bp
> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
>
> On 10/15/2015 11:31 AM, Eric Kuhnke wrote:
>
>> 5.5 miles is probably asking too much, I would use it at a max of 5-6 km
>> in a Pacific Northwest rain zone.
>>
>
>
