Starter Antennas Overview
Channel: RF elements s.r.o.
Date: 2023-03-24

Starter products are designed for customers who, as the name suggests, are starting with RF elements antenna technology, but have restricted budgets. Customers who want to benefit from the great beam performance of RF elements antennas, but they are not ready to enter the TwistPort™ ecosystem right now. 

Check all the Starter Products here: https://rfelements.com/products

Starter Antennas offer a great beam performance. Performance is not where we saved the cost so do not let low price tag trick you. 

Starter Antennas offer: 
- Great performance in a high noise environment due to the lack of Side Lobes. Unlike the traditional Patch Array sector antennas, they only radiate the signal in the direction you point them at. Zero side lobes means an antenna has very high Beam Efficiency. If you want to learn more about Beam Efficiency, watch this video: https://youtu.be/U8x71RgK-_I

- Stable antenna radiation pattern with changing frequency, which is important for consistent performance as you change channels. While with the traditional sector, the main beam and the Side Lobes change drastically as you sweep the frequency, with the Starter Products this change is minimal - making the coverage it provides stable and reliable.

- The lack of Side Lobes also makes colocation extremely simple - since the neighboring APs do not see each other, you can keep adding more and more sectors without any degradation to those already in place. This is unthinkable with the traditional Patch Arrays. Now you can really grow your network throughput.

At the moment we have five products in this category:
Two StarterHorn™ antennas - Symmetrical Horn Antenna with 30 degrees of beam width and 18 dBi gain and Asymmetrical Horn Antenna with 45 degrees of beam width and 17 dBi gain. These antennas are meant to be used in PtMP deployments. 
Three StarterDish™ Antennas for CPE applications with 21, 24 and 27 dBi gain.

With StarterDishes™ you can connect the Mimosa C5x and the UBNT waveguide radios right out of the box since all the required parts are already in the package. If you want to use any other radios, you can get an optional SMA adaptor with a pair of RP-SMA connectors. 

StarterHorn™ Antennas have SMA Adaptor already included in the package, so you can connect  UBNT waveguide radios directly as well as any other radio using pigtails.

In a nutshell, the Starter Products include two StarterHorn™ AP antennas and three StarterDishes™ with an excellent beam performance in a cost effective package.

0:00 Intro
0:29 What Starter Antennas offer
1:39 Types of Starter Antennas
2:05 Radio Compatibility

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