Border patrol use some type of spinning reflector with only sunshine illumination in day and solar powered lights at night off batteries... I will try to take picture of one
On Oct 24, 2016 11:05 AM, "Paul Stewart" <[email protected]> wrote: > That really depends on locations I would think .. I’m not familiar with US > based regulations on this but in other countries you sometimes have to put > lighting and/or paint on under 200ft > > Just suggesting that each location a tower goes should be verified as it’s > awful damn expensive go back later and paint a tower ;) > > What’s really funny I recall at previous job is we had a paint a tower > (190’) before it could be put up … nothing around that tower for probably > 50 miles .. and we had to put strobe on top too > > We put up another 190’ tower that’s on a circular approach path to a > municipal airport and nothing was required!! The airport is about 5-6 > miles away... > > > On Oct 24, 2016, at 12:50 PM, Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote: > > I realize at <200 ft it doesn’t need lighting, but what about paint? I’ve > noticed an unpainted SSV can be damn near invisible against the sky. > Hazard for cropdusters. Also hard to see with binoculars when doing site > surveys. I could see putting a strobe on it just for that purpose, > although they are not cheap. > > > *From:* Af [mailto:[email protected] <[email protected]>] *On > Behalf Of *George Skorup > *Sent:* Monday, October 24, 2016 11:44 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Take one down, put one up. > > > I don't like the tip-top of an SSV, too skinny. Which is why the 100' at > our office is topped with a 4N. And it held up in a tornado. Money well > spent. > On 10/24/2016 11:18 AM, Ben Royer wrote: > > Yeah, we’ve done it a handful of times now, 190’ is the tallest we’ve done > in one pick, just used a lot bigger crane <image001.png>. > > Thank you, > Ben Royer, Operations Manager > Royell Communications, Inc. > 217-965-3699 www.royell.net > > *From:* Chuck Hogg <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Monday, October 24, 2016 11:12 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Take one down, put one up. > > Made it look easy. We put up a 160' and were too afraid to do it in one > pick. > > Regards, > Chuck > > On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 11:59 AM, Ben Royer <[email protected]> wrote: > > Replaced a 90’ SSV with a 160’ SSV, and upgraded the site from PMP100 > 900Mhz. to 450i 5Ghz. in the process. Also threw some 820s backhauls in > there too. The take down of old tower and installation of new tower only > took a couple of hours once the crane got there, as we had to move the old > 900mhz. from one tower to the next. > > http://www.benroyer.net/thayer.mp4 > > Thank you, > Ben Royer, Operations Manager > Royell Communications, Inc. > 217-965-3699 www.royell.net > > > > > > >
