100-120 customers or so in the 90deg. For the most part, customers are decent, but some would need to be re-aligned most likely could probably find 40Mhz if needed. What is your go-to SM for 450M now?
On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 12:44 PM Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> wrote: > How many is a large number? You’ll probably gain more with 50 or 100 subs > than you will with 10. > > > > And would you be switching over good, high modulation customers? My > observation is get all your subs to 6X or 8X before putting them on a > 450m. Also, hard to prove, but I think the antenna gain might be flatter > across the 90 degrees with a 450m than with a traditional sector. You lose > something like 2 dB, but in the center, not at the edges. I don’t have > precise data to substantiate that though. > > > > Any chance you could find 40 MHz of spectrum for the 450m? > > > > > > *From:* AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> *On Behalf Of *Josh Baird > *Sent:* Wednesday, June 19, 2019 11:24 AM > *To:* AFMUG <af@af.afmug.com> > *Subject:* [AFMUG] When to consider 450M? > > > > We have a site that has 3-4 fairly loaded ePMP 2K sectors (30 deg horns). > There are a large number of customers in a single 90 degrees. While we > could probably upgrade to ePMP 3K to get a bit of a boost, there is still a > cost associated in replacing all the CPE to get the full benefit. > > > > At this point, we're trying to determine if something like 450M makes > sense for this 90 degrees of coverage. The cost is obviously much higher, > but I think it may be a better solution in the long run. If we could find a > spare 20Mhz, we could run both our existing ePMP radios and the 450M at the > same time while we cut subscribers over. > > > > Are there other people here who have been in similar situations and have > deployed 450M? I realize the performance of the 450M is dependent upon CPE > locations, but overall, were you happy with the boost in performance in > general? I feel like most people who have upgraded to 450M were already > running 450, so you didn't really have to forklift all CPE. If that were > the case, I think it would be a no-brainer. > > > > Interested in hearing any success (or failure) stories about people who > have upgraded to 450M... > > > > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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