find out who installs poles for the telephone/power company and have them install a 60-70' pole (might need to guy it but they can do that too) at the customer's site. no need to pour concrete etc. and it should be a lot less expensive than having the customer build a tower.
i think whisper or someone makes a drone that can do site surveys so you know the pole will work. On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 10:23 AM David Coudron <david.coud...@advantenon.com> wrote: > We looked at this, and it still may be something we need to consider. I > am afraid that LOS sensitive frequencies still wouldn’t reach some of them > that are less than 1 mile away due to trees. A good alternative might be > to have them put up 60-70 ft antenna structures. That would help with the > trees on their property and close by. > > > > Regards, > > > > David Coudron > > *From:* AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> *On Behalf Of * ch...@wbmfg.com > *Sent:* Wednesday, September 9, 2020 9:25 AM > *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] TV White Space > > > > Get them to contribute to the cost of a tower in their area. > > > > *From:* David Coudron > > *Sent:* Wednesday, September 9, 2020 7:52 AM > > *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group > > *Subject:* [AFMUG] TV White Space > > > > We have a couple of areas in our network that remain problem coverage > areas. The typical scenario is a handful of customers that are 5-10 miles > from a decent tower structure, but really want service. We have usually > either passed on providing coverage, or messed around with relaying from > other customers or some other messy scenario. We are looking for a > workable non-los solution for these few spots. We don’t need to get > dozens of folks on a tower, and a higher than normal cost is OK, but it > needs to be stable enough it is better than the relays and other messy > solutions we have come up with. We keep looking at 900 MHz, but it looks > like Cambium is the only one left in this game, and we are pretty worried > about noise as we are in the middle of farm country and the RTK stuff is > pretty prevalent. Has anyone had enough experience with TV white space to > develop an opinion on its ability to be used in this situation? There > only seems to be two vendors in this space, Redline and Carlson, but maybe > there are others we are missing. We are looking for a solution that would > cover customers 5-7 miles in non-los situations with rate plans of 20-25 > Mbps. Is this possible? > > > > Regards, > > > > David Coudron > ------------------------------ > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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