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w6bi
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Altelix sector antennas
Based on the glowing recommendations of  Damon K9CQB, I recently purchased several of the Altelix 5 GHz sector antennas, and recently deployed one with a Rocket M5 to a site as an replacement for a Nanostation M5.   It works as advertised; coverage and link quality is as expected.   (and the price is certainly good - $30 on sale, plus $20 shipping).

Because the Altelix sector antennas support three different radios (Ubiquiti, Mikrotik and Cambium), they provide a mounting plate for the radios with various holes and hardware.  The mounting plate hangs off the bottom two mast bracket bolts.  It's thick metal and is quite sturdy, but its placement requires that you allow additional vertical space for it and the radio.  I had to rearrange things a bit to get it to fit on the mast where it was being installed.

Here's a photo of it pre-deployment so you can see the arrangement.  You can see the Rocket hanging underneath the antenna.



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How does it compare
How do the specs compare the the M5 Sector? Is this an equivelent replacement option?
w6bi
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Specs
I'll compare the specs and post them.  There is at least one interesting difference.  But yeah, it's functionally equivalent.
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w6bi
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Lies, damned lies, and specs
Ok so that's paraphrased :-)    For what it's worth, here are the vendors specs on the 5 GHz sector antennas that we mostly use.   Hopefully it's readable.



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Wow
That is huge!

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