Would be a from scratch thing, but the cover would have to be an extra piece
that is removable.
You will have one SMA pointing down and one pointing to the side. There would
have to be room to bend the cable.
From: Brian Sullivan
Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2016 2:36 PM
To: af@afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Convert Andrew Dragonwave dishes to N
The 11X is coming with N connectors from what I have seen. So we could use
some LMR200 N-to-SMA adapter cables. If this is a start from scratch thing, I
would suggest a way to have the connectors covered up and out of the rain -
maybe with a screw on door? I dislike weatherproofing RF cables.
On 6/7/2016 3:27 PM, Chuck McCown wrote:
Sure can. I would recommend SMA connectors though I think.
What does the radio have on it?
From: Brian Sullivan
Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2016 2:14 PM
To: af@afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Convert Andrew Dragonwave dishes to N
So I assume there is no adapter available based on the crickets i've heard
from a few places.
Paging Chuck McCown- If we wanted 20 or 30 of these could you make up a
batch? I assume there would be others who would end up wanting them too.
On 6/7/2016 11:47 AM, Eric Kuhnke wrote:
If the dish's feed waveguide is cylindrical, yes you can use dual polarity
with it. The question is having the right adapter, which it sounds like Chuck
will build.
On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 8:07 AM, Brian Sullivan <installe...@foxvalley.net>
wrote:
UBNT is about to release their 11 Ghz radios to the market. I imagine
some operators like us may want to upgrade existing 11 GHz links to the UBNT
radio to gain more capacity.
Our licensed links are Dragonwave Horizon Compact and we use the Andrew
VHLP2-11-DW1 in the majority of links. Is there an adapter that will convert
these dishes to N connections? These dishes also allow us to rotate the radio
to take advantage of Horizontal or Vertical polarities as our license dictates.
Can they be run in dual polarity? Ideally, the adapter would have 2 N
connections, one for H + V. Here is a photo of the Dragonwave interface.
