Mike Morris WA6ILQ wrote: > As to painting, the two major things to remember are: > 1) color pigments are usually metallic. Avoid them. > 2) the coating is fiberglass, and you get one chance, so don't > screw up. If necessary, buy a quart of cheap fiberglass and coat a > piece of 2" PVC pipe just for the practice and self-training. >
Along those lines, I recently had an issue of coverage reduction from one of our paging sites on a TV station tower. It swept fine with an FDR, but I could see reduced signal strengths on the SpecAn. I had a tower crew go up and replace it, and when it came down, it was tower orange on one side! (The antenna was a 900MHz DB-589 fiberglass 9dB gain.) The station had a crew paint the tower over the summer, and managed to get paint on our antenna. Replaced the antenna with a DB-809, and all is well again. Anybody got any ideas for removing tower paint from a fiberglass stick without killing the fiberglass?? ;c} Jim
