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Anybody played with the new RF Elements sectors? They look pretty good to me.

http://sectorcc.rfelements.com/

Those are great looking units and a freaking hell of a price. $140 MSRP for a dual pol 20dBi 5Ghz sector?! 74º at -3dB.

WisTech wrote:Those are great looking units and a freaking hell of a price. $140 MSRP for a dual pol 20dBi 5Ghz sector?! 74º at -3dB.

yeah, that's what I was thinking. nice edges to help cut off side lobes, nice even patter H and V..


....'rumor' has it that if you pair the 3x3 sector (they are V/V/H or V/H/H) with a 'tik 3 chain AC radio (ahem...NetMetal5) that you get a few dB noise isolation from the chip's MU-MIMO....

I wouldn't run the 'tik stuff though 'cause of their lack of any efforts with the FCC (i'd like to stay in business!).

Has anybody tried the RF Elements Symmetrical Sectors? http://simper.rfelements.com/ - there are adapters for M5, Rocket 5 AC radios. Interesting concept. Any idea if it provides a benefit?

rkelly1 wrote:Has anybody tried the RF Elements Symmetrical Sectors? http://simper.rfelements.com/ - there are adapters for M5, Rocket 5 AC radios. Interesting concept. Any idea if it provides a benefit?

I'm on the list, should start showing up mid-July.

rebelwireless wrote:

rkelly1 wrote:Has anybody tried the RF Elements Symmetrical Sectors? http://simper.rfelements.com/ - there are adapters for M5, Rocket 5 AC radios. Interesting concept. Any idea if it provides a benefit?

I'm on the list, should start showing up mid-July.

Here in Europe (and THAT's where they come from!) not found a single supplier yet having them in stock.....

rebelwireless wrote:Anybody played with the new RF Elements sectors? They look pretty good to me.

http://sectorcc.rfelements.com/

Got myself a 75-100 17dBi Carrier class and whooow what a performance increase compared to a normal sector.
We had some issues in congested spectrum with other sectors and with 10 users couldn't get more than 20Mb from customers over a NetMetal. Combined with the RF Elements we have now 20 clients to same sector, some are enabled to use up to 15Mb and indeed I have tested with downloads to 4 or 5 customers and reached easy 50Mbps.....

I am very happy with these and am dying to buy more. High expectations for the symmetrical sectors too. But not available yet....

Look just like Cambium 5 Ghz ePMP sector. The 17 db should be fine for GPS Sync since those need a 30~35 FTB ratio for same channel use back to back and a good enough SNR to achieve MCS15. Anyway, I would play safe and take Cambium sector.