Yes.
We have some equipment up on and old "Chicago" windmill; several bits
actually. Ours is only 45' tall or so, and I can't seem to find any
pictures of us putting the equipment up on it (but I'll keep looking).
At the top we have a 180� 900 AP, then a UBNT PTP (2' dish), then a 5.7
GHz Canopy SM (FSK).
The site started as a 900 MHz POP, fed with the 5.7 FSK SM (the original
remote POP concept).
Since that time, we've augmented the FSK SM with a Dragonwave 11 GHz
backhaul (__NOT__ mounted on the windmill), plus other equipment put
elsewhere as well. But the old equipment is still there. In fact, we
think we will be adding a PMP450 in 3.65 GHz RSN.
The windmill was originally on a ranch in Montana (if I remember the
story correctly), and was disassembled and transported to California &
reassembled. I think about 10-15 years ago.
bp
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On 4/12/2015 4:23 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
Has anyone mounted a dish on a customer's old windmill tower? I have
always assumed there is no way to determine they are safe to climb
(and that they probably aren't). This particular one is pretty tall
and seems to have a ladder of sorts up one side.
