Documentation on the Rocketdish? The port that faces down is v-pol, the
other is obviously h-pol. I've used them on ePMP SMs. The "horizontal"
on the radio goes to the vertical on the dish and vice versa. Most all
of these more modern radios and their software/drivers don't care if
it's backwards. And in fact, most can work in a mixed environment where
you have H/V on one side and -/+45 on the other. There are advantages to
slant in noisy and multipath environments.
On 7/23/2017 10:34 AM, David Coudron wrote:
We are just starting to install these. We are using the RocketDish
5G30. We have already learned a couple of things we didn’t expect:
1. When you unlock them, you need to select PTMP mode. There is a
question during the unlock process that wasn’t highly apparent,
and our installer missed it and selected PTP or it defaulted to
PTP, not sure which yet. Spent a lot of time trying to figure
out why it would only see PTP links. I am not sure the question
even pops up in the mobile app, we need to look at that again as
that is what the installer used to unlock it. We caught it after
unlocking another one from the web browser on a laptop.
2. We also spent quite a bit of time with the cable connections as
the connectors aren’t marked with polarity. After getting two
opposite answers on the polarity of the connectors from Mimosa,
the final answer was that connector 1=Horizontal, but it doesn’t
matter as the unit autocorrects for polarity. This was late on
Friday, we will be working with it again to confirm tomorrow. We
have been unable to find any documentation on the RocketDish, but
aren’t sure that using one connector on the dish versus another
for Horizontal matters if the C5c is really autocorrecting.
3. You need a pretty tall and heavy duty J-Pole as the bracket on the
back is pretty long between the two clamp points. Normal
J-Poles, even the heavy ones we are using aren’t long enough. We
are trying to find a better option for that.
We expect we will only use these in limited areas as we have been
having really good luck with the C5. Just installed a link at 3
miles and are getting RSSI of -68.
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*From:* Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] *On Behalf Of *Jason McKemie
*Sent:* Saturday, July 22, 2017 8:55 PM
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*Subject:* [AFMUG] Mimosa C5c
Anyone out there using these? With what antennas?
Thanks.
-Jason
