Mike and Wilson went to WISPAmerica 2015 and did a quick live event talking about everything new they saw. Quick input from Scott.
Some of the things discussed:
Telrad
Mimosa
Mike is giving away SFPs lulz.
Lots-o-random things inbetween.
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Mike and Wilson went to Wispapalooza and did a quick live event talking about everything new they saw. Joining in on the call was myself(Greg), Miller, Tom and JJ.
Some of the things discussed:
RF Elements Antennas
New Unifi Controlling everything
Ubiquiti Rocket X5
Lots-o-random things inbetween.
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So juuuust after the 2014 US MUM, Greg Sowell, Justin Wilson, Mike Hammett, Tom Smyth, JJ Boyd, and special guests Thomas, Wayne, Gabe, Drew, and Brian join us.
Thomas is a genius engineer/instructor from Slovakia who currently works for RF Elements.
The audio is a little wacky since we recorded from Tom’s phone, but hopefully I’ve cleaned it up enough to be tolerable…if not, suffer in silence 😉
Some of the things discussed:
Mimosa gear
CCR 1072
CCR Status Update
New Gear – FTC media converter, New CRS, cAP, mAP
The Dude
NetXMS monitoring system – Latvian monitoring system
CAPsMAN – centralized management
Mikrotik Partitions
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It’s been ages since we’ve gotten together, but we had a pretty good showing. Greg Sowell, Tom Smyth, Justin Miller, Mike Hammet, and JJ Boyd talk shop.
Some of the things discussed:
GPON
airFiber/New Ubiquiti Gear
New Mikrotik gear – Thanks for assembling everything Andrew Cox!
New Mimosa gear
Observium monitoring tools
Cacti monitoring tools
A little about IPTV and content rights.
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This one was somewhat spur of the moment, so we didn’t have the whole crew. JJ, Tom Smyth(obviously Irish), and myself(Greg).
Some of the things discussed:
New MTK Gear(CCR109, mAP, CCR1016-12S-1S+, CCR1072, CAPs Manager)
AirFiber5
RIPE
ARIN
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We had the whole crew! JJ, Justin, Andrew, myself(Greg), and a special guest Bryon Jeffers from Missouri. Bryon did radio work for years, and now owns and operates a WISP. He is also heavy into Ham(I prefer bacon).
Some of the things discussed:
School E-Rate Program
JJ’s Software Defined Radio (SDR)
Codec2
FDMDV
FreeDV
BGP Community Strings
Mikrotik RB260GS switch – SFP port on back
My homemade fiber tester.
Unifi API 1, 2, and 3.
Callmanager express, 6 analog ports, elastix VM on the cheap.
Upcoming Mikrotik MUM
Upcoming WISPAPALOOZA
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It has been ages since we have casted, so it was obvious that we had a lot to say…over 2 hours worth of stuff to say. We covered a lot of ground, so hang on to your britches. This episode we had Andrew Cox, Justin Wilson, Mike Hammett, and myself Greg Sowell.
Topics include:
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In this one we have Greg(I have to apologize for my extreme tiredness in this one. I was on the tail end of a looooong sleepless week hehehe), JJ, Justin Wilson, and a new guest Justin Miller. I met Miller at the Vegas MUM and he’s been kicking around with us ever since. He is the brains for the largest WISP in Virginia and he is kind enough to share some of that grey matter with us.
We talk about:
Ubiquiti’s AirFiber
Mikrotik CCR installs
Sensor Ninja, JJ’s new project.
Interstate sealed batteries.
A little bit about Ubiquiti mFi experiences.
Wilson talks about Bitlomat. New AP/CPE equipment.
As always, let us know what you guys think!
Also, I LOVE this freeze frame preview of Miller’s face bwahahahaha…good times.
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Looks like they have a decent lineup scheduled…any of you guys going?
This is an email conversation between JJ, Greg, Mike, Andrew Cox, Andrew Thrift, Justin, Tom, and others. I thought you guys might find this interesting.
We have been working on a mast site ( revisiting it since ) our Work on spacing out the Antennas last year,
I was wondering about your opinions.. on Sectors…
we have been using Pac wireless ones / Laid ones which seemed to have good range and great noise rejection (front to back)
we started using Sunparl Dual Polarity sector Antennas. they look impressive all metal enclosure etc… … and had great signal strenghths however compared with Pac wirelsss we have seen other neighbouring sectors at -15 ( as opposed to –45 / -50 on Pac wireless dishes)…
what I was wondering was what is your experience with sectors… are the UBNT Sectors good ? I have never used them out of prejudice….
What have you used and what would you recommend ?
any pointers would be much appreciated…
PS I love Jirous Dishes (Extreme) for Point to Point Links 🙂
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I have somewhere in the neighborhood of 100+ ubuquiti antennas on towers / poles / cow pastures. I have been very impressed. I love that all of them are dual poll for a minimum amount of money. I love the new titanium sectors better rejection selective beam. Tho only bad thing I can think to say is the non titanium ones have what seems to be rivets around the rp-sma connector that seem to rust pre maturely.
I would have to say go for it! I think you will be happy… We are.
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I’ve heard that(from JJ I think) for the price the UBNT antennas have the best design. I’ve had good success with them also.
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We use the 120 degree ubnt sectors (5g19 i think) with ubtik enclosures. Mikrotik with ubnt antennas win win I’m my book.
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Jirous looks great. I’d love to try them sometime.
I used to love MTI sectors, but they’re so damn expensive.
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Thanks for that… I really appreciate.. it…
I presume you would recommend the RF Armour … as well ?
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I second the ubnt sectors. No firsthand experience with the titaniums yet. I do have experience with the rf armor shields though. Very happy with the ubnt+ rf armor.
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I have a couple Titaniums, but nothing much to offer any insight from. I certainly like the mechanical setup of Titaniums vs. standard + RF Armor.
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We have tried the Laird, Sunparl and UBNT sectors.
I too really like Sunparls enclosure, but the brackets and lack of protective coating on the pcb let them down. Also we got a fair bit of noise with them.
The ubnt dual polarity sectors are what we use and recommend. They are good quality and the brackets are really nice.
All our back hauls are now Jirous, its good to see more people discovering them 🙂
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What say you guys? Drop us a comment!
