Grounding points bonded.

On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Jay Weekley <[email protected]>wrote:

> Are all the ground points bonded together?
>
> David Hannum wrote:
> > We're having an issue with a 9000APC that is very strange. Here is the
> > situation.  We have a remote water tank (stand pipe 75' high) that has
> > a few homes around it.  So, we have a 9000APC and a connectorized
> > 2450AP on the tower, both on Omni's.  The antennas are on a stand
> > almost exactly 4' apart. There are six subs on the 900MHz radio.
> > About a month ago, I had an issue where (after about 9 months) the
> > signal to all of the customers just faded out, to the point that only
> > two subs were still good.  I swapped the antenna and that did not
> > help.  I swapped the radio, and that fixed the problem. Trouble is, it
> > only lasted about three weeks, and the same thing happened again.  I
> > swapped the radio again yesterday, and today, I'm back in the same
> > boat.  The radio in the AP keeps going out.  I had the climbers check
> > the grounding, and we actually ran a dedicated ground yesterday off
> > the water tank.  My knee jerk feeling today is that maybe the radios
> > are too close together, and the 2450 is burning up the 900.  Could
> > this be the case?  Any ideas?
> > Here is an example of what happens.  Customers that run signals -47 to
> > -57 become -70 to -75 and those who's signals were -70 and up fall
> > clear off.  Swap the radio, and everything goes back to normal.  This
> > is now three radios that have gone, each lasting a much shorter time
> > than the previous.  (this one did not make it 24 hours).
> > I can't completely rule out lightning - the tower is in a very wooded
> > area.  But usually you burn up the NIC in that case - not weaken the
> > radio.
> > Thoughts?
> > Dave Hannum
> > New Era Broadband
> >
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