Rural Fixed Wireless

A New Mast Goes Up. The Customer Slows Down.

Fixed wireless beyond the fibre footprint lives or dies on where the antenna is pointed.

A SOCA rotator carrying a log periodic antenna on a roof mast at a house. — A directional antenna on a roof mast. Photograph: Cellular Path, at a site in the United States.

The Problem

The directional antenna is aimed at the mast that measured best on the day of the install. Months later the operator lights a new site, refarms a band, or the cell fills up in the evenings.

Speed falls, the customer calls, and the answer is an engineer, a ladder and an hour of turning an antenna by hand while somebody reads numbers off a phone.

The Proof Point

97 km/h sustained. Gusts to 145 km/h.

Cellular Path's datasheets rate the rotator at 60 mph sustained wind and 90 mph gusts, with an IPX2 ingress rating, which is what puts it on a roof or a wall pole rather than in a loft.

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Not suppliedThe directional antenna, the coax and the router. SOCA is the aim, not the link

StructureThe pole must carry the antenna and 2.3 kg of rotator. 36 kg is the maximum antenna weight

BondingLightning bonding and coax surge protection to normal UK practice

RouterSOCA-02 No Modem reads the router's own signal figures, so the router has to be one Cellular Path has verified

Manufacturer

Distributed in the UK by Boothroyd Distribution.

Specifications and photographs are Cellular Path's own, published by it and reproduced here under our distribution agreement. The photographs were taken at sites in the United States. Cellular Path and SOCA are trade marks of Cellular Path, Inc.

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