Re: [WISPA] Trango APEX link trouble

2010-05-17 Thread Kevin Sullivan
Ok, I think we finally fixed it. It was only happening when it was hot becauseof a loose wire. The PS that came from Trango already had the power connector on it, so we didn't check the set screws that hold the wires into the connector. While I was troubleshooting today, one of the wires fel

Re: [WISPA] Trango APEX link trouble

2010-05-17 Thread Brad Belton
Ha! Good to hear and you have to love the simple fix! Brad -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Kevin Sullivan Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 2:14 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Trango APEX link trouble Ok, I t

Re: [WISPA] TW Form Letter Broadband Stimulus Dispute

2010-05-17 Thread Stuart Pierce
Have a link to one of the disputes you could share ? -- Original Message -- From: "Robert West" Reply-To: WISPA General List Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 01:01:41 -0400 >I've been reading some of the disputes to the Broadband Grants and I see Time >Warner sen

Re: [WISPA] and you think we have it bad

2010-05-17 Thread St. Louis Broadband
Oh this is a shame. My heart goes out to their families. These men, as all tower crews, risk their necks on a daily basis for this technology. It is a shame that they should be targeted like this. ~V~ -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org]

Re: [WISPA] Hamvention

2010-05-17 Thread lakeland
That is a myth. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: "Kurt Fankhauser" Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 01:36:07 To: 'WISPA General List' Subject: Re: [WISPA] Hamvention You can't use a fiberglass omni at the top of a tower and expect it to survive a strike unless i

Re: [WISPA] Hamvention

2010-05-17 Thread Kurt Fankhauser
Which part is a myth? Kurt Fankhauser WAVELINC P.O. Box 126 Bucyrus, OH 44820 419-562-6405 www.wavelinc.com -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of lakel...@gbcx.net Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 8:20 AM To: WISPA General List S

Re: [WISPA] Hamvention

2010-05-17 Thread Robert West
Rickesha? Is that you???! -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of D. Ryan Spott Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 1:08 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Hamvention It wasn't a she... and it was all night baby :) rya

Re: [WISPA] TW Form Letter Broadband Stimulus Dispute

2010-05-17 Thread Robert West
Certainly. There are lots and lots of them. They almost all claim that they already provide service to 50% of the households covered in the application. However, TW is never going to provide service to those who are not already served by them unless the population increases many fold and if some

Re: [WISPA] TW Form Letter Broadband Stimulus Dispute

2010-05-17 Thread St. Louis Broadband
How do you get to the main link? ~V~ -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Robert West Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 9:16 AM To: spie...@avolve.net; 'WISPA General List' Subject: Re: [WISPA] TW Form Letter Broadband Stimulus Disp

Re: [WISPA] Hamvention

2010-05-17 Thread Blake Bowers
If you have a copper ground rod in the radome then you make the antenna both directional, and subject to a high VSWR. Radome antennas like the one pictured do splinter - it is one of those LMR facts of life. ANY antenna subject to a direct strike can be damaged. The best antenna I have ever us

Re: [WISPA] TW Form Letter Broadband Stimulus Dispute

2010-05-17 Thread Robert West
http://www.broadbandusa.gov/ -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of St. Louis Broadband Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 10:26 AM To: 'WISPA General List' Subject: Re: [WISPA] TW Form Letter Broadband Stimulus Dispute How do you get

[WISPA] Insurance carriers (I need one)

2010-05-17 Thread Scott Carullo
I'm having a hard time finding someone to insure us for the requirements below... Employer's liability insurance in an amount not less than $1,000,000 each occurrence. Commercial General Liability (including completed operations and contractual liability) on an occurrence basis with limits of

Re: [WISPA] Insurance carriers (I need one)

2010-05-17 Thread Dennis Burgess
There is a WISPA Vendor member that is an insurance carrier. --- Dennis Burgess, CCNA, Mikrotik Certified Trainer, MTCNA, MTCRE, MTCWE, MTCTCE, MTCUME Link Technologies, Inc -- Mikrotik & WISP Support Services Office: 314-735-0270 Website: h

Re: [WISPA] Insurance carriers (I need one)

2010-05-17 Thread Marco Coelho
The Hartford is generally reasonable. On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Dennis Burgess wrote: > There is a WISPA Vendor member that is an insurance carrier. > > --- > Dennis Burgess, CCNA, Mikrotik Certified Trainer, MTCNA, MTCRE, MTCWE, >

Re: [WISPA] Insurance carriers (I need one)

2010-05-17 Thread Rick Harnish
Scott, Contact Johnathan McLean jmcl...@riskstrategiesins.com http://www.wispa.org/?page_id=594 Thanks, Rick > -Original Message- > From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On > Behalf Of Scott Carullo > Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 11:00 AM > To: wireless@wispa

Re: [WISPA] Insurance carriers (I need one)

2010-05-17 Thread Blake Bowers
http://www.towerinsurance.net/ Ask for David Saul. David is recognized quickly by any of the tower companies, and completely trusted. I believe he can take care of all your needs. Don't take your organs to heaven, heaven knows we need them down here! Be an organ donor, sign your donor card tod

Re: [WISPA] TW Form Letter Broadband Stimulus Dispute

2010-05-17 Thread St. Louis Broadband
No CCI listed yet. ~V~ -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Robert West Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 9:16 AM To: spie...@avolve.net; 'WISPA General List' Subject: Re: [WISPA] TW Form Letter Broadband Stimulus Dispute Certainly

Re: [WISPA] TW Form Letter Broadband Stimulus Dispute

2010-05-17 Thread Robert West
Yeah, I started looking around for that as well. Must not be sorted out and posted yet. -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of St. Louis Broadband Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 11:28 AM To: 'WISPA General List'; spie...@avolve.

Re: [WISPA] Rad-Win 2000 firmware upgrades

2010-05-17 Thread Steve Barnes
*UPDATE* The new 2.4.50 firmware does work with hardware version 3. It does not make any performance increase, that only happens for Hardware version 4. It is more sensitive on the Ethernet Cable side and best to hard code to FDX. The issue I had was that the router was hard coded FD

Re: [WISPA] Issues with sending email with Everyone.net servers

2010-05-17 Thread Scott Lambert
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 02:36:52PM -0700, Mark Nash wrote: > I hope to have a resolution soon, or we will be switching 1000+ users > to another provider. Anyone who's done that knows the undertaking it > will be, but we will do it nevertheless. Moving the mailboxes

Re: [WISPA] Rad-Win 2000 firmware upgrades

2010-05-17 Thread Patrick Shoemaker
Hardcoding one side of an ethernet link to 100/FDX and leaving the other on autonegotiate will result in a duplex mismatch due to the way the autonegotiation works. Cisco has a nice article about this: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps700/products_tech_note09186a00800a7af0.shtml

Re: [WISPA] Issues with sending email with Everyone.net servers

2010-05-17 Thread Mark Nash - Lists
Yes, address books. They are a pain. We migrated about 900 accounts TO the Everyone.Net servers last year. From 2 very different mail servers, about 40 domains. Address books were a pain in the rear. Then there was the 2 users that were actually using the Calendar feature of one of the serve

Re: [WISPA] Hamvention

2010-05-17 Thread Leon D. Zetekoff
On 5/17/2010 10:23 AM, Blake Bowers wrote: If you have a copper ground rod in the radome then you make the antenna both directional, and subject to a high VSWR. Radome antennas like the one pictured do splinter - it is one of those LMR facts of life. ANY antenna subject to a direct strike can b

[WISPA] WISPA classifieds?

2010-05-17 Thread Kevin Sullivan
Hello, I've asked before, but I still haven't got an answer. Does WISPA have any online classifieds for used WISP equipment? I'm looking for a licensed link, and I have mountains of Trango 5800(-d), Trango 900, Tranzeo, and a few Trango ATLAS backhaul units I'd like liquidate. (I've also got

Re: [WISPA] WISPA classifieds?

2010-05-17 Thread Justin Wilson
DSLreports has a fairly active classifieds section under their forum for WISPs. Justin -- Justin Wilson http://www.mtin.net/blog Wisp Consulting ­ Tower Climbing ­ Network Support From: Kevin Sullivan Reply-To: WISPA General List Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 16:53:20 -0700 To: WISPA Gener

Re: [WISPA] WISPA classifieds?

2010-05-17 Thread Dennis Burgess
No reason as a WISPA member that you could'ent add a buy/sell page to the wiki. --- Dennis Burgess, CCNA, A+, Mikrotik Certified Trainer Link Technologies, Inc -- Mikrotik & WISP Support Services Office: 314-735-0270 Website: http://www.link

Re: [WISPA] Insurance carriers (I need one)

2010-05-17 Thread RickG
www.selectiveinsurance.com I've been very happy with them for several years now. With that said, I've never had a claim. Maybe the better question is: Who is happy with their insurance company AFTER they've had a claim? -RickG On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Scott Carullo wrote: > I'm having a

Re: [WISPA] Hamvention

2010-05-17 Thread RickG
I dont expect anything to survive a direct hit. I've had dozens of these on towers since 2004 and this is the first one to get it. Not too bad! On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 1:36 AM, Kurt Fankhauser wrote: > You can't use a fiberglass omni at the top of a tower and expect it to > survive a strike unles

Re: [WISPA] WISPA classifieds?

2010-05-17 Thread Rick Harnish
Kevin, I just loaded a widget to the WISPA website which will allow classified ads. I am no expert at setting this stuff up, so this may be a temporary trial. I would appreciate assistance from other board members or wordpress experts. So, test it, try it, but don't abuse it. It may take some tim

Re: [WISPA] WISPA classifieds?

2010-05-17 Thread Kurt Fankhauser
This brings up another point. What do you do with old gear that just plain isn't worth keeping? Its taking up valuable space and you can't even give it away so the landfill is looking like its final resting place. I have been thinking lately of using my old TR-CPE-200's as clay pigeons but then I w

Re: [WISPA] WISPA classifieds?

2010-05-17 Thread Glenn Kelley
Rick - if you want some help - please hit me off list. First thing I noticed is the form - when you want to add an "add" - a user must scroll down to find the options ... I have done a good amount with WordPress, Typo3 and Drupal - to name a few systems Happy to help Glenn On May 17, 2010,

Re: [WISPA] WISPA classifieds?

2010-05-17 Thread Rick Harnish
Glenn, I would appreciate the help. I am concerned about setting up a rule set as well. It would help if someone could research some other classified ad sites and their rules and come up with a document that will work in the WISP industry. Then it should go to the bo...@wispa.org email address

Re: [WISPA] WISPA classifieds?

2010-05-17 Thread Brian Webster
What about sending the equipment to these relief projects like in Haiti? While this stuff may not be worth a production WISP environment, in a place like that it would be worth its weight in gold. Thank You, Brian Webster -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wire

[WISPA] Times Microwave tools for LMR 400...

2010-05-17 Thread D. Ryan Spott
I am looking for the following: EZ-400-NMH-D Connector CCT-01 Tool (cutter) ST-400EZ tool (cable Prep tool) DBT-U (deburr tool) HX4 Tool (crimp tool) Separately or in a kit... Does anyone have a favorite Vendor? I saw one vendor selling a kit for LMR400/600 with all of the above parts. They wante

Re: [WISPA] WISPA classifieds?

2010-05-17 Thread Glenn Kelley
I recently helped a project rebuild (United Methodist Church www.COR.org ) in Haiti The challenges are more than just not having the radio... sadly Hit me off list if you want some details - sad how difficult and expensive it is to help them rebuild due to the controls in place to just bill

Re: [WISPA] WISPA classifieds?

2010-05-17 Thread Justin Wilson
Check out the rules/etc. On how Craigslist runs their classifieds. Some things that come to mind 1. Have the ads expire after 30 days or some time frame. This is more of a software thing. Keeps the ads relevant. 2.Limit to equipment. No services. 3.Require certain things su

Re: [WISPA] Times Microwave tools for LMR 400...

2010-05-17 Thread Eje Gustafsson
They are nice sure, but consider how expensive the connectors are I go with regular connector. Even if that means I have to do two crimps and have to mess with the center pin. Not crimped a cable in the field for years thanks to PoE occasionally need a jumper and mostly just use premade jumpers and