Good point. I've got a question out to Purewave on that.
George Skorup wrote:
Yeah, -6dB means you cut your range in half and any foliage
penetration you might get will be worse quality. If it's a water tower
with the catwalk railing, that's pretty much your only option, unless
you have more than one radio. Don't those expensive base stations have
like 1/2-watt per port though?
On 12/1/2015 3:11 PM, Josh Luthman wrote:
Is it LMR400 between the sectors and the radio gear? 5.6db sounds
like a lot to me.
I'd definitely ask Purewave.
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On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 4:10 PM, Jay Weekley
<par...@cyberbroadband.net <mailto:par...@cyberbroadband.net>> wrote:
We are going to experiment with some Purewave equipment that we
have had for a while and one of our possible locations is on a
water tank which means some of the LMR-400 to the sectors may be
quite long. The loss calculator provided by Purewave shows that
the loss on 60 feet of coax is 5.6 dB with Cable Run Efficiency
of 31.6 %. Is this acceptable? I haven't worked with coax much
but that seems like that's a big performance hit considering the
loss on 6 feet is .7 dB and a cable run efficiency of 89.1 %.
What is the performance hit the actual signal strength at the on
the actual wireless link?
