Robert, The AC radios in general seem to have hit or miss support for the narrower channel widths we use for sectors (5 / 10MHz). We’ve had reports in very rare instances of AC radios working. In general they don’t support the narrow channels and we don’t recommend them. Looking at the product code, "RB921GS-5HPacD-19S” it looks like it may be a sector antenna with a built in NetMetal 921. We use NetMetal 921 models for backhaul links, but they don’t support the narrow channels, so another point in a “probably not” sort of guess. We have in one case experimented with an air fiber at 3GHz on a backhaul link and it works fine. I also believe the Tampa Bay folks use some 3GHz backhaul links. In terms of setting up your own network, you’re welcome to set up the backhaul in whatever means makes most sense to you. The standard covers the stuff that is user facing, so that a user can take their gear to another HamWAN compatible network and it should work without reconfiguration. In our case, it’s worked out fairly conveniently to use part 15 5ghz space for most of our backhaul. Nigel

On Dec 7, 2018, at 15:50, kd2iua.ham <kd2iua.ham@gmail.com> wrote:

Do you support mantbox19s routers and if so do they have to be the international versions initially? I'm looking in the next few months to roll out a test case to give hamwan some presence in upstate NY with some existing mantbox routers

I'm also wondering if you have ever considered using 3ghz for the p2p backbone links? You mention using part 15 unlicensed for the p2p but for part 97 purposes why not just utilize airfiber3x radios on 3.4-3.5?

Since the 3ghz band on 3.65 for wisps will be deactivated in 2020, it might open up a lot of used wisp gear that doesn't have a home except for limited ham applications. This might create a unique opportunity if the cost of the gear crashes as a result and can only be used for a ham.

Robert (kd2iua)

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