Ya, I did that on some of my hard to climb locations. What a dream compared to the nightmare they were!
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Marlon K. Schafer <[email protected]> wrote: > One way to handle that (I often do this because I'm very afraid of heights) > is to mount the antennas at the top then run good cable down to a nice play > for the radios. > > LMR 600 only looses 3 or 4 dB per hundred feet. For runs of less than 50ish > feet I'll usually just use LMR 400. If 3 dB of cable loss kills your system > you'll be fighting it every time something changes (heavy rain, fog etc.) > anyway. Yeah I know weather isn't supposed to affect these bands but > someone forgot to tell the radios that :-). > > marlon > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Justin Wilson > To: WISPA General List > Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 7:31 AM > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Mounting on silos > Most silos like scott is dealing with have no ladder going to the very > top. Imagine a domed water tower with no ladder to the top of the dome. They > never were designed to have to climb to the top. No reason to. So what you > are left with is a ladder that goes to where the dome starts. You then have > another 10 feet or more to be able to get over the top of the dome. In > otherwords, you can’t mount at the top of the dome. You have to come up > with a solution to get you over the dome. > > Sure, you could bring in a lift or crane and mount stuff. However, > maintenance and repair become the issue. You have to bring that lift in > each time because you can’t climb to the top of the dome. > > Justin > -- > Justin Wilson <[email protected]> > http://www.mtin.net/blog > Wisp Consulting – Tower Climbing – Network Support > > > ________________________________ > From: Josh Luthman <[email protected]> > Reply-To: WISPA General List <[email protected]> > Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 10:15:17 -0400 > To: WISPA General List <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Mounting on silos > > How is that any different then any other tower? Especially a water tower. > > Josh Luthman > Office: 937-552-2340 > Direct: 937-552-2343 > 1100 Wayne St > Suite 1337 > Troy, OH 45373 > > > On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Scott Reed <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Especially the one with an open ladder, no cage. > > Kurt Fankhauser wrote: >> Some of them old silo's like you are describing are pretty scary. I've >> been >> on them too and seen a lot of safety issues from the fall protection cage >> being rusted through and falling, to the top cap trying to fall off. Just >> be >> careful climbing those things! >> >> Kurt Fankhauser >> WAVELINC >> P.O. Box 126 >> Bucyrus, OH 44820 >> 419-562-6405 >> www.wavelinc.com <http://www.wavelinc.com> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >> Behalf Of Scott Reed >> Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 7:56 AM >> To: WISPA General List >> Subject: [WISPA] Mounting on silos >> >> I have a couple of POPs that are silos. Several of them are old >> concrete silos with metal domes. The top of the dome is more than 10' >> above the top of the concrete. I have been mounting with 10' pipe on >> the ladder side and not servicing customers on the "back" side. It has >> also worked out that the backhauls are on the ladder side as well. >> This year the trees seem to be growing a lot more leaves than in the >> past. I have a couple of silos that I need to get the backhaul higher >> than the 10' mast will allow. If I can get above the dome, I could >> also increase the covereage area. >> So, the question is, for those of you using silos, how to you get above >> the dome? >> >> > > -- > Scott Reed > Sr. Systems Engineer > GAB Midwest > 1-800-363-1544 x2241 > 1-260-827-2241 > Cell: 260-273-7239 > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! 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