I've seen two dish elements go bad in the last couple of years. Dustin Jurman Rapid Systems
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Brownson Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 9:56 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] antenna question Having been in the wireless business for 30 years I've seen a bunch. And antennas can fail. There are a multitude of components that can break. In order of failure points we generally look to cable and connectors first, then active components like the radio and antennas last. In the radio business everyone has a power meter to test these sorts of things. In about 5 minutes you can determine if it's the cable or antenna with the proper instrument. Unfortunately most in this industry are not aware of using power meters. We sell one from Praxym that's just super cool and easy, but it's $1295. However that may be a lot cheaper than the cost of the outage and tower climbers and time guessing what's wrong. Or perhaps not? I have also seen one bad cable replaced with another. Mike B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I have a Waverider ccu that stopped accepting associations from cpe. Swapped >ccu, bypassed filter, replaced cabling, everyting but the antenna. All the >spec ans stay flat. My guys on the tower are pointing to the antenna, 2 yr. old >til-tek sector as the failure point. Ive never had an antenna go bad. Any one >else had a similar experience? > >Thanks, >Chris > > -- Mike Brownson Electro-comm Distributing 5015 Paris St Denver, CO 80239 www.electro-comm.com (303) 371-8182 x112, (800) 525-0173 Your 24x7 support staff is at www.ShopECBIZ.com Interested in Metro WiFi? We have solutions Coming soon from Tranzeo, 900MHz PtMP ================================ -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
