Antenna diversity

[jlinville]

Using a 350 with an external high gain antenna. Is it recommended to turn off antenna diversity? (ie.configure 350 to use only one antenna).

Thanks!

[tepatel]

That is correct..as Bridges have directional (usually point-to-point) antennas.Tejal

[jlinville]

Actually, the 350 will be connected to an outdoor 8dpi omni with about 20' of LMR-600. The client will be a Hand Held Products 7400 with Cisco RF. It's my understanding in an outdoor/open space application two diversity antennas are not required or desirable. Just trying to confirm this. Thanks!

[blue.modal]

You could use diversity antennas outdoors (placed just slightly more than one wavelength apart - 12 cm), but it really won't help you.

If you want more than the max 600 meter range that your stated config will give you (at 11Mbps), there are a few ways to improve that.

Matthew Wheeler

www.BlueModal.com