They could probably just do the following with very little (if any) cost increase.
- The mounting plates on the top and bottom of the radio are metal. Just attach a ground point inside the box to one of the mounting bolts for grounding to the mast. Attach your lead from your shielded Cat-5 and you are set. - Insert (with glue) some thin metal pieces on all the inside surfaces of the existing box to shield from close by RF interference. (like two radios being mounted very close to each other, etc..) - Put a hinge on one side of the door of the exiting box and we can just use the two current screws in the corners on the other side to open it up. (not going to open them that often anyway, right?) - Add some kind of plastic Zig Zag pieces to the inside edge of the box where your Cat-5 gets threaded through to provide cheap and easy strain relief. Add a gasket, or gland, or whatever you want to call it in the hole on the bottom of the unit for the Cat-5 to pass through. Then we can just plug our own Cat-5 straight into the board. That gives us a grounded box, that is RF shielded, has access to the inside to plug in the Cat-5 directly to the board so we can all use our favorite Cat-5 type, and provides a cleaner looking and more weather resistant install. All of it could be done for what is currently being spent on the "weatherproof" connector and the Cat-5 that is included, and would be a minimal manufacturing process change. All of this is of course IMHO. :-) Kevin Summers KISTech Internet Services Inc. www.kistech.com > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 2:27 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [smartBridges] aBO with pigtail waterproof connector > > > (pardon my bad netiquette as I merge 2 posts...) > > I think those are all slick changes, and I would welcome them ..but I > think we can kiss the pricepoint good bye, eh? > > sB.. any idea how much would it raise the cost of each unit to do what's > listed here? > > TIM > > >I am using 2 of the Trango units for backhaul > >the vertical and horizontal is done electronically inside the >Trango > radio > > > > > > > 1) They need to metalize the radio(for shielding from transient > voltage) > > > 2) They need to do away with the waterproof connector and the > > piece of non > > > shielded cat 5 hanging down from the radio > > > 3) Increase the radio from 60 mw to 100mw > > > > > > My observations from testing the radios for several months > > > > Tim Foster > www.AledoBroadBand.com > Aledo's only high-speed ISP > > The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List > To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe > smartBridges <yournickname> > To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type > unsubscribe smartBridges) > Archives: http://archives.part-15.org The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe smartBridges <yournickname> To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe smartBridges) Archives: http://archives.part-15.org
