Thanks for the feedback guys.
I may look into the polyphasers. I never tried them on this stuff as I figured
lightning would kill the whole thing. Most of my strikes seem to be near misses
that hit something and go up the tower.
From: Ken Hohhof
Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2016 1:58 PM
To: af@afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 5GHz dual polarity omni
One thing I’ll say about the N connectors is they make it easy to screw a
Polyphaser directly to each N connector. I hate omnis for their tendency to
get hit by lightning, but this method has saved the radio for me several times
while the antenna is toast. I think the Polyphasers cost us less than $50 each
from Streakwave and haven’t had to replace them after lightning events.
From: George Skorup
Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2016 1:53 PM
To: af@afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 5GHz dual polarity omni
We have several deployed with 450 and ePMP. We see a lot of nulls in the
pattern. It's pretty obvious when you can rotate it while watching some SMs and
see the V/H ratio change. We'd be better off having a little less gain with a
more uniform pattern.
On 2/23/2016 1:43 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
I have not bought Chuck’s version, but I have used KPP and L-Com which I
assume to be the same. IMHO the performance is underwhelming, and if you pull
the guts out, they look unimpressive. Actually I had lightning blow the top
off one so I got to look inside. At least I assume it was lightning, as
opposed to the cap just popping off. But I’m guessing you could take out the
screws on the bottom and slide the guts out to look.
From: Chuck McCown
Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2016 1:33 PM
To: af
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 5GHz dual polarity omni
They all come from the same source in China. Those two OMNIs are the only
antennas I import.
From: Mathew Howard
Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2016 12:31 PM
To: af
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 5GHz dual polarity omni
I don't think that's true, if I remember right, the Teletronics is the same
as the omni Chuck sells and the KPP's, which from my experience seems to be the
best ones out there.
I think the older ARC's may have been the same, but the new ones are junk...
unless Teletronics has changed theirs to be the same as the newer ARC's.
On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 12:23 PM, Glen Waldrop <gwl...@cngwireless.net> wrote:
The UBNT omni works decently, the ARC 13dBi omni isn’t so great, so anyone
tried the Teletronics 5GHz 13dBi omni?
Their 2.4GHz omni works great, but I’ve been told that ARC and Teletronics
use the same manufacturing plant, so the Teletronics 5GHz 13 dBi may have the
same “not quite an omni” issues.
Any news out there guys?
