, 2006 8:19 AM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] DAY FROM HELL!!!
The storm here on Thursday night tore one of my sites down.
ONE 2 foot dish and one sector, were not able to be supported by the
galvanized pipe just 7 feet. The wind bent it over at 20 degrees... and
then the guy wire snapped in the upwind
General List' wireless@wispa.org
Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2006 10:22 PM
Subject: RE: [WISPA] DAY FROM HELL!!!
I hate y'all are having storms and even worse that it has knocked y'all
off
line at different towers.
It's been almost intolerable here too:
http://www.weather.com/weather
For us in little old Yakima we have a crumpled and twisted 50 foot tower that
pulled the guy wire support concrete and all about 15 feet clean out of the
ground while the tower was falling. It took six access points/antennas, of
that we saved three of the radios and four of the antennas but it
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Subject: RE: [WISPA] DAY FROM HELL!!!
For us in little old Yakima we have a crumpled and twisted 50 foot tower
that pulled the guy wire support concrete and all about 15 feet clean out
of the ground while the tower was falling. It took six access
points/antennas, of that we saved three
At 10:30pm this evening one of our tower routers took to locking up.
This is after being replaced just few weeks ago for the same problem. It
was the same hardware and I can't tell if it's cold related or not but
it doesn't feel like it. I've now put together another replacement and
I'm just
The storm here on Thursday night tore one of my sites down.
ONE 2 foot dish and one sector, were not able to be supported by the
galvanized pipe just 7 feet. The wind bent it over at 20 degrees... and
then the guy wire snapped in the upwind direction, causing the whole thing
to snap off...
Mark Nash - Lists wrote:
Wind storms came through last night. Power out at 6 sites this morning,
various power companies. Started at 6 this morning...Put in 2 generators,
purchased 8 marine batteries and patched them into my APC UPS units. 2
sites now still running on batteries, 2 on
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Behalf Of Mark Koskenmaki
Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2006 10:19 AM
To: WISPA General List
Subject: Re: [WISPA] DAY FROM HELL!!!
The storm here on Thursday night tore one of my sites down.
ONE 2 foot dish and one sector, were not able to be supported by the
galvanized pipe just 7
