Are these big dishes? Did you not get a well defined peak during alignment? Is the signal more than a couple dB less than predicted, like 20-30 dB low? You’re on a sidelobe. I’ve had experienced tower guys run into this. They tend to be stubborn and believe they can align a dish with a 1 degree beamwidth by eye, and then they spend half an hour trying to tweak the alignment to get an extra 1 dB when they’re 20 dB off. Once the signal starts getting worse, they go back the other way instead of continuing. Convince them to do a wide sweep, and they find the main lobe. You have to go through the valley to find the mountain.
From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sean Heskett Sent: Monday, October 24, 2016 9:14 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] UT Local Ceragon Installer The angle of the leg shouldn't matter...at most you'd loose ~3db but it'd have to be almost at a 45* angle for that. (Chuck did a demo at one of the animal farm events) If you can get me remote access I can look at the config for ya. They are very un-intuitive to say the least lol. -Sean On Monday, October 24, 2016, Sterling Jacobson <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: I need to get my Ceragon link running, it's been forever. I think someone on this list had offered me their service local to Utah for this. I am paying for this, either by Job or by hour. If you remember offering, and it's you, or you think you would like to help, then let me know. I've got the link installed on both sides and configured, just something not lined up or configured correctly. The local guys I used originally earlier this year couldn't figure it out. And I think the mountain side link is not mounted true and needs a proper mounting on the leg, or hardware to mount it true, not on the leg at an angle.
