Yes. Midwest maximum rain rates are way up there.
Looking back in our records, our AF24 (not HD) have lost ~~ 3 dBm during
our last real rain event last December. These are 2.25 mile links.
bp
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On 10/15/2015 11:38 AM, Eric Kuhnke wrote:
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
<mailto: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
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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.
