Use Travis Johnson's method of putting a black thick mil trash bag on it...the blowing in the wind will shake loose any potential for rime ice. Regards, Chuck
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Bret Clark <[email protected]>wrote: > Yeah, being in New England area we use Radome's on most of radios on high > locations, but this one would be on top of a ski mountain and there are > other cell phone provider antenna's up there covered pretty think with rime > ice. I know in general ice doesn't attenuate 5Ghz too bad, but it looks > like the build up can be extensive here. Started to look for heated > radome's but again came up empty. Might be one of those deals where we try > it and see what happens. > > Bret > > > On 01/30/2012 02:02 PM, Cameron Crum wrote: > > With a radome, the ice shouldn't be too much of an issue unless it gets > really thick. I had some dished here in Texas that I did not put radomes > on, thinking that the one or two days of ice we get a year would not > matter. With about 1/2 inch of ice directly on the end of the feed, my > throughput went to nothing. I added a radome and then next ice storm with > about the same covering of ice had no effect and my throughput remained > constant. I would go with a radome with even a possibility of ice. > > Cameron > > On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Bret Clark <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Anyone have to deal with rime ice on antenna's? We need to build a PTP >> link that will be on a top of a mountain that's notorious for rime Ice. It >> would be a 5GHz link with sturdy 3ft radome but I'm not aware at what >> effect rime ice might have on 5GHz signal if any? Googling hasn't really >> bought up any decent info. >> >> Thanks, >> Bret >> >> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >> http://signup.wispa.org/ >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] >> >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >> > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >
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