To make a very long story short, I work for a company that regularly deploys mikrotik grooves. We also regularly support the grooves remotely and regularly have them taken out of Boats, Cars, and etc and hooked up via a POE injector and a laptop to adjust settings and configs. More often than not the individuals on the other end of the call rarely have an antenna at their workstations.
Half of my company swears powering on the groove without an antenna will destroy it in less than a minute.
Those of that regularly program these have never had an issue. We often program, have them reinstalled and verify function. We operate under the assumption that because we don’t push data or receive data the radio portion of the groove is not under stress and doesn’t burn out.
Is there an official mikrotik stance on this? I found a post from 2014 on this board about the topic but I did not feel an answer was ever given.
Thanks.