Nope, no reflectors on towers. We've had tornadoes get close enough to
some sites over the years. I'm remembering several 27RDs where the
fiberglass reflectors were just gone. And then there's falling ice.
We've used a lot of Laird HDDA-5W's. Basically the same thing as the
Rocketdish. Galvanized vs stainless on stainless h/w too. I prefer the
Laird. Plus you can do -/+45 with the Laird feed horn setup. We do have
a ton of PTP links using Rocketdishes. It was extremely easy to swap the
Rockets with ePMPs thanks to the RF Elements adapters. And now we're
looking to upgrade all of those yet again with PTP550's. It never ends.
On 1/22/2018 10:08 AM, Mathew Howard wrote:
I concur. I can't see myself ever putting a reflector on a tower.
On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 9:45 AM, Mike Hammett <af...@ics-il.net
<mailto:af...@ics-il.net>> wrote:
There's no way I'm using a reflector for anything.
The rejection is very good.
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*From: *"Rory Conaway" <r...@triadwireless.net
<mailto:r...@triadwireless.net>>
*To: *af@afmug.com <mailto:af@afmug.com>
*Sent: *Monday, January 22, 2018 8:08:50 AM
*Subject: *Re: [AFMUG] Arc Wireless 30 dBi vs RocketDish RD-5G30
If you are talking about the 2’ dishes, their gain in 5GHz is the
same as the KP reflector. We may test that but honestly, between
the price difference which is more than $100, the weight, and the
complexity, it would have to be significantly better and I doubt
it is.
Rory
*From:*Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com
<mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com>] *On Behalf Of *Mike Hammett
*Sent:* Monday, January 22, 2018 6:58 AM
*To:* af@afmug.com <mailto:af@afmug.com>
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Arc Wireless 30 dBi vs RocketDish RD-5G30
They still work down there, just lose a couple dB. Their better
rejection makes up for it.
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*From: *"Rory Conaway" <r...@triadwireless.net
<mailto:r...@triadwireless.net>>
*To: *af@afmug.com <mailto:af@afmug.com>
*Sent: *Monday, January 22, 2018 7:57:40 AM
*Subject: *Re: [AFMUG] Arc Wireless 30 dBi vs RocketDish RD-5G30
Most Jirous antennas aren’t good for under 5.4GHz though. We
started using them after being told more than 2 years ago they
would have updated nose cones shortly. I’m still waiting.
Rory
*From:*Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] *On Behalf Of *Mike Hammett
*Sent:* Monday, January 22, 2018 6:30 AM
*To:* af@afmug.com <mailto:af@afmug.com>
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Arc Wireless 30 dBi vs RocketDish RD-5G30
Jirous makes antennas with good patterns.
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*From: *"David Coudron" <david.coud...@advantenon.com
<mailto:david.coud...@advantenon.com>>
*To: *af@afmug.com <mailto:af@afmug.com>
*Sent: *Sunday, January 21, 2018 9:04:56 PM
*Subject: *Re: [AFMUG] Arc Wireless 30 dBi vs RocketDish RD-5G30
We love the KP Performance antennas for the CPEs, but haven’t used
them yet for backhaul. Have you been using them for that as
well? We were worried the wider beamwidth would catch too much
other noise. Or maybe that hasn’t been an issue?
Thanks,
David Coudron
*From:*Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] *On Behalf Of *Rory Conaway
*Sent:* Sunday, January 21, 2018 8:56 PM
*To:* af@afmug.com <mailto:af@afmug.com>
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Arc Wireless 30 dBi vs RocketDish RD-5G30
Right now the best antenna we have tested at 30dBi has been the KP
Performance antennas. We will be testing the RF Elements antennas
next.
Rory
*From:*Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] *On Behalf Of *David Coudron
*Sent:* Sunday, January 21, 2018 6:49 PM
*To:* af@afmug.com <mailto:af@afmug.com>
*Subject:* [AFMUG] Arc Wireless 30 dBi vs RocketDish RD-5G30
We have traditionally been using the Arc Wireless 30 dBi 5 GHz
parabolic dish for our shorter backhaul links when using 5 GHz.
The have been OK, but we have a tough time getting them and the
radomes from time to time. We are in that situation again. They
are priced quite competitively, and seem to do the job, however we
are looking for options since they are so spotty to get ahold
of. We have messed around with the Ubiquiti RocketDish for CPE
connectorized radios, but haven’t tried them out for backhaul as
of yet. The specs appear to be very similar and I expect they’d
perform about the same other than the N-Type vs SMA connectors.
Anyone have experience with both of these dishes? Or is there a
better alternative that we should be looking at in the $120 range
(dish only)?
Regard,
David Coudron
