Wireless Beehive Value Add Antennas

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Wireless BeehiveValue Add Antennas
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Antennas 101

• RF and Antennas
• Best Practices, Value
• The Plug

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What is RF?

• Electrical currents that oscillate at RF have
  special properties not shared by direct current
  signals. One such property is the ease with which
  it can ionize air to create a conductive path
  through air.

Source Wikipedia 6/2008
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What is an Antenna?

• Antennas deliver all the energy presented to them
  (good impedance match) and direct the energy as
  desired (gain and pattern)
• Antennas can be thought of as impedance matching
  devices.
• Impedance is opposition an alternating current
  (AC), in this case RF signals

Source Wikipedia 6/2008
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Antenna Parameters

• There are several critical parameters that affect
  an antenna's performance These are
• resonant frequency
• impedance
• gain
• aperture or radiation pattern
• polarization
• Transmit antennas may also have a maximum power
  rating, and receive antennas differ in their
  noise rejection properties. All of these
  parameters can be measured through various means.

Source Wikipedia 6/2008
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Gain and Signal

• Antenna Gain is defined as the ratio of the
  radiation intensity of an antenna in a given
  direction, to the intensity of the same antenna
  as it radiates in all directions (isotropically).
  
• Gain is a measure of the ability to increase the
  power or amplitude of a signal. It is usually
  defined as the mean ratio of the signal output of
  a system to the signal input of the same system.

Source Wikipedia 6/2008
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Jitter

• Jitter is an unwanted variation of one or more
  characteristics of a periodic signal.

Source Wikipedia 6/2008
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Polarization

• The "polarization" of an antenna is the
  orientation of the electric field (E-plane) of
  the radio wave with respect to the Earth's
  surface and is determined by the physical
  structure of the antenna and by its orientation.
  It has nothing in common with antenna
  directionality terms "horizontal", "vertical"
  and "circular".

Source Wikipedia 6/2008
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Typical CPE Antenna Types

• Yagi, Beam or Directional
• Good choice for 3-15 dBi
• 3 dB double the length.
• Parabolic
• High gain (gtgt20-25 dBi).
• High wind loading, should have radomes if ice is
  expected.
• Panels
• Good choice for gain 7-22 dBi.
• Integrated radome,
• Arguably better jitter specs than yagi.

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Best Practices

• Use RF and Antenna dynamics to choose the right
  product for the right job.
• When in doubt, add Gain!
• Make the most of every truck role
• Choose products that are quick and easy to
  install, minimal assembly
• Choose products that have trouble shooting
  options
• Avoid unnecessary trip charges GAS is not
  cheap!!
• Install accessory items up front
• Surge Suppressors
• Easy Mounts

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The Value

• Customer Satisfaction with increased ROI
• Fast installs, products that work and are easy to
  trouble shoot happy customers!
• Aesthetics count
• Tangible cost vs non-tangible
• Spend more money on devices up front tangible
• Suppressors, antennas etc
• - OR -
• Spend more money on return trips to diagnose
  problems non tangible
• Person hours, loss of customer

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Wireless Beehive Manufacturing

• Subsidiary of Wireless Beehive, Telco and WISP in
  UT and consumer of Motorola Canopy
• Stingers are small form-factor antennas designed
  to slide on top of a Motorola Canopy or Trango
  Fox radio
• 2.4 and 5x GHz versions are passively coupled to
  the radio 900Mhz products are connectorized
• The majority of Stinger products are designed for
  the subscriber end
• Both Horizontal and Vertical polarity versions
  offered
• One size for Trango, two for Canopy
• Cost-effective, time-saving alternative to larger
  dishes

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Canopy Options

• Stinger 5.7GHz
• Slip on an extra 12 dB, extend your range to 5
  miles
• Stinger 5.3 GHz
• Slip on an extra 10 dB, extend your range to 5
  miles
• Stinger 2.4 GHz
• Slip on an extra 7 dB, extend your range to 10
  miles
• SuperStinger 2.4 GHz
• Slip on an extra 12dB, larger panel
• Stinger 902 928 MHz
• Slip on an extra 10dBi, NO extra mounts for
  panels or yagis, connectorized, extend your
  range to 10 miles

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SuperStinger

• Stinger (900 Mhz version)

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A little more

• SSS
• TA
• Mounts
• Reflectors

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Wireless Beehive Manufacturing

• www.wbmfg.com
• Contact your Double Radius Rep
• and start adding
• Zing to your Zang

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