Several radio manufacturers used to OEM the Remec ODUs, and there are Remec
circular and rectangular slip fit interfaces. Dragonwave, Ceragon, SAF and
Exalt have their own, as I assume do several others I have no experience with.
Then there’s Jirous, which Mimosa has teamed up with.
Antenna vendors like Commscope and Radiowaves have models with feedtubes for
several of the common radio manufacturers. The (now defunct?) McCownTech
Optics dishes had interchangeable feedtubes, including one for 5 GHz so you
could upgrade from unlicensed to licensed.
From: Brian Sullivan
Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2016 8:41 PM
To: af@afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Convert Andrew Dragonwave dishes to N
What are the other attachment setups for licensed radios? I only have
experience with the Dragonwave flavor.
I have heard mention of an adapter to convert DWave to Cambium 820.
On 6/7/2016 8:18 PM, Jason McKemie wrote:
It would be nice to have one that fit Andrew / Commscope more directly
though, as opposed to the dragonwave adapter.
On Tuesday, June 7, 2016, Chuck McCown <ch...@wbmfg.com> 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: javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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.
