[BC] STL recommendations in the year 2012

[Alex Hartman]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 9:32 PM, Mike McCarthy <towers at mre.com> wrote:
> On 2/24/2012 8:30 PM, Alex Hartman wrote:
>>If you're 16 miles over nothing, then there's nothing to worry about using 5.8Ghz ISM. I do 7 miles over a city with 2 WISPs in town using 5.8, nothing wrong with it at all. Just had to do our own little frequency coordination to make things happy and we stay away from each other.
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>>People have this problem with it, apparently you just don't want to the footwork. --
>
> At appears you may not live in an area with more than a couple operators. And more importantly, all of them don't give a damn about a private point to point shot across their bow.  BTDT....
>
> BTW...Fred lives in Houston....  I think there are more than just a few operators there....

Mike,

I fail to see any value in your comment other than to shine your ego a
little more. How do you know they don't give a damn? Have you called
them? Have you done the path study for Fred? Have you gone down and
done a spectrum analysis?  Those are some rather large assumptions
you've made Mike.

Texas boys are fairly friendly, and doing a p2p link can cause far
more damage to an operator of a WISP than you realize. Let me just
shoot this 300w ERP signal right into your tower that has 300 clients
on it to find out.

You'd be surprised how many  WISPs would love a phone call from other
guys saying "Hi, i'd like to use a frequency, lets talk so we don't
cause each other problems". Instead of arrogant people just turning
crap on they have no idea about and accidentally aiming that 300w dish
into an airport causing bigger problems and possibly killing people.

Also, there's more than the 5.8Ghz ISM band, and if you really really
want the protection of a license, there's always 3.65Ghz, which is
licensed, but makes you do the footwork anyways because of the type of
license. There's also 900Mhz, 2.4Ghz, 61Ghz, 144Ghz, etc... Don't
think i'd try anything in 61Ghz for more than a mile hop though, 144?
Don't even think gear exists, and if it does, it's out of our price
ranges.

Moral of the story, there's more than one way to do this, assuming too
much and instantly denying the idea just shows how unwilling you are
to try new things Mike. Welcome to the 21st century. T1's are dead and
microwave links are too slow.

--
Alex Hartman