Tasos

Faisal,

Actually it was written correctly, but maybe needs to be explained better. Our TwistPort™ adapter will have better performance because of the lower loss. The beam performance of Carrier Class antenna is comparable to TwistPort™ antenna, but you have the higher insertion loss.

The goal would be to have your favorite radio manufacturer make radios that have our TwistPort™ built into it. Then you would get virtually ZERO loss!

18 hours ago, jjonsson said:

Hi @Mike

Dough! I can only say RTFM ;-)

LOL. No worries we are glad to help.  We would love to see your feedback and data here once you get it up and running...

On 6/9/2016 at 4:42 PM, Symmetris said:

Hi there, we are planning a test using Ultradish 380 with UBNT M5 Rockets.  What aerial setting should I use? The options are the usual UBNT dishes and sectors.

Symmetris,

Thanks for trying our new UltraDish380. Are you asking about the setting in the UBNT Link planner?  If so, you can choose 24db as that is the antenna gain, or you can try the 30db dish they have listed.  Users are reporting better performance with our smaller UltraDish than their higher spec'd 30db dish. Please let me know if that answers your question or if you have any others.  We look forward to your test data.

mrhome.  We are looking into other frequencies for Horns and our Carrier Class Sectors.  Stay tuned....

Bruc,

Thanks for the feedback!!

That antennas is 10db so that is what you need to put in the radio.  All the antenna specs are on our site including gain.  If you tell us the CPE distances from the tower we can help you calculate down-tilt if needed.  2000ft is very high so our null zone will be bigger then usual but still much much smaller then traditional antennas.

Please keep us informed of your progress.

Tom,

What Ubiquiti Rocket and adapter are you using?  Can you share some other info like CPE being used and distance from AP of CPE's.  Last questions are what frequency are you running on the Rocket and what trouble are you seeing?

3 hours ago, Faisal said:

Awesome,  Thanks for the feed back !

Faisal,

5.1 to 5.9GHz is the range. I will get the website corrected.  Thanks for pointing out the error.

On 1/9/2016 at 11:49 AM, Faisal said:

Related question....

The Sector are also only rated for 5.4 to 5.8 frequency range....based on the findings from Chad... would it  be fair to assume that the sectors performance in 5.1 is less degraded than the simperial horns ?

Faisal,

We have a few sectors for 5Gig in the Carrier Class line.  Our 17db version is designed to work from 5.1 to 5.9GHz.  That is the version Chad is using.  Our 20db version and our 3x3 Carrier Class Sectors operate from 5.4 to 5.9GHz.  Don't let the "lower gain" rating of our 17db version turn you off.  It has excellent signal performance due to its built in shielding and balanced H & V beams.  Killer performance for its size.

Great info Chad. Thanks!!

19 hours ago, Faisal said:

Hi Tasos,

Sorry for possibly repetition... but can you all share what is the behavior (how bad does the gain drop off) with freq. less than 5.4 Ghz ?

I fully understand the official position as stated above... but need to know what happens below 5.4 ? (it's not like it stops working ! )

 

Thanks

 

Faisal,

The performance drop of the current TP adapters below 5.4GHz is not a big function of gain but more of VSWR and Cross Pol Isolation performance.  Gain below 5.4Ghz drops about 1db in the Hpol and 3db in the Vertical. The big difference is Cross Pol Isolation drops much more in the lower band as well as VSWR goes up to an unacceptable level for us (more than 1.8). So you are correct, the antenna does not just stop working, it just doesn't perform as well as the rest of band which it’s tuned for.

BTW- We are working on our next generation of adapters which will have full band coverage, with no compromises.  Stay tuned....

Wirelessrudy,

The use of our 3x3 sector could help.  Most likely with 2x2 cpe.  You don't always see better signal, but it could help with packet delivery in higher multi-path areas.  The 3rd chain has the ability to potentially receive signals that the other pol's may drop.  You would have to decide if you will use a HHV or a VVH.  Since you have many single pol devices, and I assume they are Vpol so VVH might be best.

Here is a representation of how it may help.  You can see the 3rd chain might receive packets that the other 2 miss. 

Hello Francisco and Burc!  Currently the TwistPort adapters that are used in the Horn antennas have a frequency range of 5.4 to 5.9GHz.  Frequencies below 5.4GHz are not supported.

Thanks for the feedback and we are glad the 30-degree horn antenna is working well for you.   We are still working out the bugs on the forum, so please try again to post your pic.  We would love to see it!