As you wish....

From: Jaime Fink 
Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2016 8:45 AM
To: af@afmug.com 
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Convert Andrew Dragonwave dishes to N

Why yes, we do need one Chuck ;)

On Jun 8, 2016, at 7:43 AM, Chuck McCown <ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote:


  I think Mimosa needs a DragonWave adapter....

  From: Jaime Fink 
  Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2016 8:35 PM
  To: af@afmug.com 
  Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Convert Andrew Dragonwave dishes to N

  Actually Ken, there's a few more options on the Mimosa side thanks to our 
slip fit wave guide design on the B11:

  Radiowaves now have Mimosa adapter mount due to popular demand. This is ready 
now as I understand it from their channel. 

  We're testing very soon a 3rd party adapter plate for the 2 main Commscope 
series. 

  Arc Wireless also has a direct Mimosa adapter now, should be with our 
distributors quite soon. 

  Lastly we have a number of customers that use Tong Yu who are also making an 
adapter plate as well. 

  Hope that helps. 

  Jaime

  On Jun 7, 2016, at 6:57 PM, Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> 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 
    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.








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