I have had a 3 mile 24ghz Ligowave link up for two years with very little rain fade - maybe 15 minutes worth in the past two years.
Matt Larsen vistabeam.com On 8/2/2011 1:13 PM, Fred Goldstein wrote: > At 8/2/2011 01:34 PM, Gino Villarini wrote: >> Content-Language: en-US >> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; >> >> boundary="_000_D26588DB857E2948835D6C7A27C9879E15DBBD68AEROMAIL1aerone_" >> >> Both Radwin and Motorola PTP500 would work well under high >> interference, but if you want to go to a whole diff band, I would >> suggest against a 3 mile 24 ghz link, go with a Radwin 2000 in 3.65 >> Ghz . Its FCC certified for up to 20 mhz, providing a solid 100 >> mbps aggregate data rate for well under $7k >> > If Adam's where I think he is, he is in the exclusion zone of two or > three of those pesky earth stations. 3.65 is unavailable in much of > the country, unless he can wangle the waiver. > > A lot of people use 18-23 GHz links of that distance. The 24 GHz > unlicensed power limit may be a bit low though. A licensed Ka-band > radio should be fine for 3 miles, unless it is non-diversity mission > critical. Someone I work with manages a public safety microwave > network around here. His 18 GHz and 5 GHz links are both impacted by > weather, but not the same weather, so the network overall stays up > even as links fade. > > > -- > Fred Goldstein k1io fgoldstein "at" ionary.com > ionary Consulting http://www.ionary.com/ > +1 617 795 2701 > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/