Before I decide on trying Randy's idea, is there anyone that happens to have a DragonWave Air-Pair outdoor cable they're willing to part with?
It looks like Tessco and Hutton are special order only. If anyone has a cable they are willing to sell let me know. I think we've got one cable that is long enough for one side, but I need another cable for the other side. Thanks! Brad Belton BelWave Communications O: 817-737-3124 #101 F: 817-336-7031 -----Original Message----- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Randy Cosby Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 2:36 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Looking for DragonWave Air-Pair cables and feedback... We don't have it up yet (another long story - but we won't buy another used Dragonwave on Ebay), but they will be pretty short runs. I would think you should be able to get up to 300ft without a problem. Randy On 2/16/2010 12:33 PM, Brad Belton wrote: > Hello Randy, > > Ha! Very interesting. How long were your Ethernet cable runs on each side > of the link? At what power level do you have the radios set to? > > Another idea we had was to run the LMR400 cable from the ODU all the way > inside to the outdoor designed IDU. This would limit the length of the > proprietary cables to a minimum. The question I have if we do this is: > Will the outdoor IDU be able to power& operate the ODU over the 50'-200' of > LMR400 we may need rather than the 3'-4' of LMR400 it was intended to do? > > Thanks for the feedback! > > Best, > > > Brad > > > -----Original Message----- > From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On > Behalf Of Randy Cosby > Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 10:32 AM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Looking for DragonWave Air-Pair cables and feedback... > > Since your unit is out of warranty anyway... > > If you open the unit up, you will find that there is an ethernet port > inside it, as well as a power port, connected to that proprietary plug. > We replaced that with a Pacific Wireless RJ45 ethernet connector system > - http://www.streakwave.com/mmSWAVE1/Video/RJ45-ECS_datasheet-v2.pdf > and peeled the power off that. We were then able to push power + > ethernet up on one cable. > > > > On 2/16/2010 6:31 AM, Brad Belton wrote: > >> Hello Kristian, >> >> Those connectors are similar to what the Trango Apex uses that are too >> > small > >> for an armored outdoor CAT5 cable. It's a shame the product engineers >> > some > >> manufacturers use/have to design their products are so imperceptive of >> > basic > >> field requirements. >> >> The inherited DragonWave AirPair radios that we're contemplating using on >> > a > >> job have the proprietary round DIN style plug attached to a custom >> DragonWave bundled cable. It looks like Hutton and Tessco have these >> > custom > >> cables in a variety of lengths, but what a pain in the tail! >> >> Thanks for the information. I've got some more reading to do before we >> decide on deploying these radios or just to punt them on EBay. >> >> Best, >> >> >> Brad >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On >> Behalf Of Kristian Hoffmann >> Sent: Monday, February 15, 2010 6:34 PM >> To: WISPA General List >> Subject: Re: [WISPA] Looking for DragonWave Air-Pair cables and >> > feedback... > >> On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 12:32 -0600, Brad Belton wrote: >> >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> We've inherited a DragonWave Air-Pair radio set and I'm looking for any >>> feedback from those that have deployed these. The good, bad and ugly. >>> >>> >> We have a few Horizon Compact links. They've done very well except for >> when we get weird high/low pressure systems that result in a layer of >> fog in our valley that sits at about ~150ft. The DW engineer called the >> effect ducting. We enabled AAM in an attempt to counter the affects, >> but the AAM code was apparently buggy in the version we had. So instead >> of stabilizing the link, it made it much, much worse. So make sure you >> get the latest firmware if you can. >> >> >> >>> We'll probably need new cable sets for each end as well, so to any >>> DragonWave vendors on the list please feel free to send me an email with >>> prices on cable length options. >>> >>> >> The Horizon Compact units have unfriendly ethernet connectors as well. >> Something along the lines of this... >> >> http://www.connecticc.com/default.aspx?page=item% >> 20detail&itemcode=JTRJ45-12NXL >> >> >> >>> I sure hope their new Horizon radios don't require these BS proprietary >>> cables like the Air-Pair radios. What a pain in the tail... >>> >>> >> >> -Kristian >> >> >> >> >> >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> ---- >> WISPA Wants You! 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