So next summer will all our radomes in the field look like this?

 



 

From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of castarritt
Sent: Friday, March 8, 2019 9:21 AM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Cambium radomes - is there a trick to popping them on?

 

Our installers are too lazy to put their radios together in the field (kids 
these days!).  Instead, they do it on that conference table in the climate 
controlled office before throwing them in the van.  The temp does sometimes get 
down into the 40's here, so I don't really blame them for it.

 

On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 4:03 PM Nate Burke <[email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]> > wrote:

Set them in the sun for a little bit?  I haven't noticed any more problem than 
usual snapping them on a Force200 in below freezing weather.  Although the last 
one I did actually broke off one of the clips when it snapped on.  Just pray 
you never have to take one off....

I think you have to remember that the designers of the equipment have never 
actually set foot outside the office.  Everything assembles fine when it's done 
with all parts individually lined up on a conference table in a 72 degree room. 
 All companies should make the design engineering team assemble all equipment 
on the tailgate of a pickup in a 20mph wind at 15 degrees, and I guarantee that 
it will be redesigned.  

On 3/7/2019 11:43 AM, Adam Moffett wrote:

I miss just snapping the SM onto a reflector.  ....but I suppose it's not time 
to wax nostalgic.

On 3/7/2019 12:40 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote:

I’m getting tired of struggling to install the radomes on PMP450b high gain 
dishes, I think it’s the same radome as the ePMP Force 200.  I’ve had to resort 
to hammers and heat guns.  I don’t remember them being this difficult at first, 
maybe they shrink or get stiff sitting in the distribution warehouse, or maybe 
before I was doing it in August or something.  Usually the biggest problem is 
the next to last tab.

 

I don’t want to make it the installers problem because then I know I will start 
seeing dishes on houses with no radome, and a pile of radomes in the truck.  I 
want the radome for windload, appearance, and snow resistance.

 

Is there some kind of trick that someone has found to installing these devils?

 





 

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