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@Arx Web- I don't have that answer for you right now.  I will ask internally and get back to you.  Probably have an answer Monday.

@Arx Web- No worries.

@Arx Web- Thanks for the post and great question.  Most people have done frequency reuse with 30deg Horns, but 40's are perfectly fine.  Especially with GPS on Gen2 Rockets.  You don't have to be 180deg out like most people want you to think. 180* out is the rule of thumb with Traditional sectors because of their terrible side lobes and as you know Horns are not your regular sector.  You can do ABAB channel reuse with 30* Horns w/o issues.  Your ABC ABC set up on 40* Horns will work just fine.  We look forward to your feedback and reach out if you have other questions.

One thing I would add is to communicate with other users because having the correct GPS settings and FW on your radio is very important.  I cant really help you with that, but there are many WISPs that can on FaceBook or Radio Forums.

Thanks @JorgeCuba

@Sam- It usually takes 4-5week for containers to arrive. Its best to ask your favorite distributor when it will arrive to get a better ETA.

As for the 21db version, its on the road map but no ETA on availability yet.

22 hours ago, JorgeCuba said:

Just registered!

Really looking forward to see this webinar :-)

Regards,

 

Looking forward to having you join us as well!

@Sam- Thanks for the post and great question!  The UltraHorn will work like our other Horns as VERY NARROW PtMP sectors or for regular 1to1 PtP links.  We don't have any feedback from users as they have not arrived at Distributors yet, but be sure they will work just like the 30deg Horn but with more gain and narrower beam.

@Oce- Thanks for posting the screen shots and let us know your results with the CPE change.  You may have noise coming into CPE1 but its hard to tell.  What we can see is that CPE1 TX is very bad since your TX MSC is very low. Only 4x...

@richinuk- Thanks for your post and feedback.  As for ePMP3K, its to early to tell.  We have not even seen a radio yet and we will have to see how the radio will actually work before we can think about a TP adapter for it.  Anything is possible, but with MUMIMO, you never know what the radio expects in an antenna to work properly.  Follow us on FB for updates if you dont already and we will keep you posted..

Thanks!!

@Oce- Thanks for the post and and sorry for the issue you are seeing. Its hard to tell for sure what the issue is for CPE1 from here, but can you share some CPE screen shots of signal page?  Just want to see if you are aligned correctly, noise floor, and connection quality.  Maybe you have a LOS issue?  At 3.3Km with the settings you have on that Horn you should be getting around a -58ish  With that said, the quality of that connection will not be very good for AC gear because you have the TX power way to high!  27db TX is not suggested for 802.11AC gear to work correctly (18-22db TX is suggested for max).  Please share the info requested and we can look from there.

To answer your other question about the setup for 10Km coverage, you will need more narrow Horns.  Maybe 30 or 40deg horns or try our older Carrier Class Sectors for that distance.  All depends on customer density required...

@John Rayfield- It would be great if you could ask them to do so

@John Rayfield- The horizontal beam is exactly the same as the Vertical beam, so the 30deg horn has a 21* V and H beam at -3.  The 40 has a 27* V and H beam at -3. The 50 has a 33* V and H beam at -3.

You can find all these in our spec sheets. 

See here:https://www.rfelements.com/products/wireless-broadband/symmetrical-horn-antennas/symmetrical-horn-tp-antenna/

Go to the bottom of the page.

@viya0414- Currently our PtP backbone product line is not on the market.  It just started shipping to distributors.  I'm sure once customers use them we will have information to share.

@mistry7- The delay is frustrating for everyone involved.  I assure you.  The quality of our products vs others should speak for itself and proof why taking your time to do it right first is more important. 

@MimCom-  Please let me know where you see the AF-5X adapter as order-able.  They are not available yet so its probably a mistake at some distributors site and we would like to correct that.

@sherwoodj28- I would be happy to help. Please send me a PM and we can exchange contact info or you can email me tasos@rfelements.com

@ukzerosniper- Can you please explain better what you are trying to do?  The 90deg Horn is typically an access point sector to use with the rocket.  From what you wrote it seems like you would like to use it for CPE?

@Darcy- We will need more information about your set up to help.  As JT mentioned, its not always the best approach to automatically use the same settings. A spectrum scan should be used to identify the best channel to use as things are very different now then before with a traditional sector.

With that said, can you provide a bit more information on your equipment.  You mentioned you are using a 30deg Horn with shielded adapter for RocketAC PRISM.  We don't offer a shielded adapter for the PRISM radio so I want to verify what you have.  Do you have the box the adapter came in so I can verify the part number.  If you are using a RocketAC-LITE or RocketAC-PTP radio then it may be possible you are running and older V1 TP adapter.  That could be an issue.  Also what channel are you using?  Any screen shots of link data GPS coords, or install pics would be great.

@RFelbor- Thanks for the post.  You should choose an antenna from the list that matches the gain of the Horn as close as possible.  For the 60deg I would choose the 13db antenna in that list.  

@mistry7- It will be this year.  Sorry for the long wait.

@sherwoodj28- Can you tell us the how high the AP is on the tower with GPS coords as well as the CPE side?  Down tilt will depend on the distance from the tower as well so we need a little more info.

@Azlan Abass-   Currently we don't have our new PtP 5gig back-haul antennas on the market so we don't have any use cases for it to share at the moment.

@Brandon Lege-  Distance of Horns are based on many variables.  No antenna has a fixed distance assigned to it. Noise, CPE used and acceptable modulation rate are just a few things to consider when answering your question.

If you used a NB25 type CPE you can do 4Km to a 90deg Horn if you stayed in the -3db beam and maintain low to mid -60s for signal.  If you tried your NB16 at 4Km you would be in the -70s. That same NB16 to a 60deg Horn will see something in the mid -60s.  If you use the correct CPE for your particular Horn both 60s and 90s will work and in most cases achieve full good mod rates.

@Brandon Lege- Based on the distances and CPEs you will use you don't need much down-tilt at all with a 60deg Horn for everyone to get great signals as long as its LOS.  If you want to use down-tilt to limit exposure at the horizon I would suggest about 10deg to start but no more then 15deg to ensure your customers at 5km stay in the low -60s.

With all that said, please consider these Horns are about 8-9db less gain overall then traditional sectors so by default you are limiting your horizon TX and RX capabilities.  The math says 10-15deg down-tilt max, but I feel 5deg is all you need.

@Brandon Lege- What CPEs are you using and what AP radio?