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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