3km you shouldn't need more than a 15dB pannel... That's a very short distance.. As long as you have a clear frenel zone and LoS your good. To give yourself extra fade margin you could increase the antenna gain or use a higher powered card, (ex: SR5) however you should be able to achieve stable signal levels with the formentioned specs.I want to establish 5 Ghz link using 2 CM9 cards, 2 pc routers,2 flat antennas, distance 2.5-3 km and mikrotik.Any experiance, comments?