The coaxial on an 11GHz radio makes no sense to me. Everybody else
(mostly?) is waveguide. Different is not always good, even if it's
cheaper. "Because what f'n antenna am I supposed to use!?" says the
entire list.
They might have been better off with a proprietary slip-fit antenna
and/or interface. Or perhaps two models like the Integra & Integra-S.
On 6/7/2016 8:57 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
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 <mailto:installe...@foxvalley.net>
*Sent:* Tuesday, June 07, 2016 8:41 PM
*To:* af@afmug.com <mailto: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
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*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.
