Thanks Rick!
As an ISP I've used Airaya for years. I have 4 of their links running and a
spare on the shelf. Great gear, great people. Mike is the genuine article.
For those that don't already know it, I do outside sales for
www.ecommwireless.com in addition to my ISP duties. We've sold the Airaya
gear for a number of years now. We should be able to get you better pricing
then the factory direct prices. (probably not on the sale items though)
One more note. I like Airaya. And I really like Mike. However, he does
tend to overestimate the real world range capabilities of his gear. I
usually knock off about 25% at any given speed. Or knock off speed at any
given distance. Other than that, they are great folks and have always taken
care of me well.
laters,
Marlon
(509) 982-2181 Equipment sales
(408) 907-6910 (Vonage) Consulting services
42846865 (icq) And I run my own wisp!
64.146.146.12 (net meeting)
www.odessaoffice.com/wireless
www.odessaoffice.com/marlon/cam
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Hilding" <dx35@hilding.com>
To: <CQ-contest@contesting.com>
Cc: <towertalk@contesting.com>; <nccc@contesting.com>;
<writelog@contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 2:15 PM
Subject: [TowerTalk] SALE On Remote Site Point 2 Point Gear
> Santa Claus is alive and well in South Silly-CON Valley!
>
> For those with remote stations, or working toward such a venue like myself
> seeking low latency connectivity, I just ran across the deal of the
> Century
> which I'd like to share so you can save $$$ as well.
>
> Last year my ISP referred me to a locally headquartered company called
> AIRAYA which makes first class point to point gear with extremely low
> latency (an absolute must for high-speed and SO2R contesting).
>
> I was on that end of town earlier today, and decided to drop by AIRAYA
> again to check on some new potential compatibility issues with a new
> whiz-bang interface remote box for the TS-480S. These folks are very
> nice, and Mike Nydam (President & CEO) graciously spent some time with me
> as I explained how more Contesters are getting into remote station setups,
> and why the low latency is important.
>
> The AIRAYA package I had been looking at for eventual acquisition retails
> for $1,600+ so it's not cheap. When Mike took me on a tour of the
> facilities, he causually mentioned that they had received a large shipment
> of the items from a sub-vendor that had a slightly different mounting
> arrangement on the antennas, and that they were going to have a "SALE" to
> zero out the inventory (everything else is the same...including the 2
> rolls
> of LMR-400 coax which are included).
>
> When he said $799, I about fell over, and am pleased to report I left the
> building as a new owner of a complete system that was one of the needed
> items in my remote station plans...at a big savings!
>
> This same AIRAYA gear can be "multi-hopped" if you don't have direct line
> of site from your shack to a remote antenna site, and still realize low
> latency. With one of the much larger antennas, the potential to go up to
> 30 miles per hop is not out of the question. In my situation, I only need
> to go less than 4 miles, which my understanding is the gear will run at
> 20mbps/40Mhz and the latency should be well below 5ms...maybe 1 or
> 2ms. This stuff blows away Internet or Satellite connectivity for
> Contesting.
>
> Mike said the $799 price will be officially on their website tomorrow (
> http://www.airaya.com ), and the Item # of the package is:
>
> AI108-4958-Kit-PM
>
> But wait...there's more...
>
> I mentioned that I might possibly need to run the remote site portion of
> the gear directly off 12v vs. A/C if I decided to initially use only low
> power on some deep cycle batteries. No problem...they make a small board
> which converts 12v to the requisite 5v @ 2A for the system and it's only
> $20. Yes, I walked out of there with one of these too!
>
> If you have a need for multi-hops or an unusual situation, call Mike at
> (408)776-2846 x203 and either he or one of his tech folks can most
> assuredly help you out .
>
> NO, I don't have any commission deal involved here. I just hope some of
> you remote station folks will benefit from the this info and the $$$ to be
> saved right now.
>
> Today was another day of "Destiny" (except for my neighbors who
> unfortunately had their garage burn down while I was at AIRAYA).
>
> FYI & 73...
>
> Rick, K6VVA
>
>
>
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