[Tech-Assist] STL problem now critical

[Allen Sherrill]

Side lobes!  Got bit by that recently on a 5.8GHz link I installed.

After everything was done, I was getting a fraction of the predicted RSL.  The original rigger swore up and down that he had swung the dish at least 180 degrees and had the signal maxed out. 

It didn't look quite right from the ground, so I had another rigger go up and look at it.  The original guy was running into some mechanical interference on the tower and didn't swing it far enough in the one direction it really needed to swing.  Second guy realized this and took the extra effort to swing the dish around.  Problem solved!

Allen Sherrill

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 4:46 PM, <donroden at hiwaay.net> wrote:
>Quoting "Burt I. Weiner" <biwa at att.net>:
>> Make sure the dish is properly aligned and not on a side lobe -

>in the spirit of ... " don't kick it if it works"