I’ve never understood the seizing issue. Do people really remove antennas that often that it’s a problem?
I would rather my antennas lock down and stay. > On Sep 2, 2020, at 11:48 PM, Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> wrote: > > > I don’t want to assemble antennas onsite, and if possible I don’t want a > tower guy doing it because they do everything with channelocks and a pocket > knife. So most of the time I end up doing it. And I just hate assembling > Commscope dishes. Haven’t used RFS so maybe they are wonderful. > > A tower site with wind and weather and gravel and dirt is not the place to be > assembling things. If you drop a nut or washer, good luck finding it. Plus > you maybe have a couple ground crew guys standing around while the tower guy > assembles a dish, meanwhile you’re wasting good climbing weather. > > I wish all the antenna manufacturers would put serrations in their clamps to > resist rotating under wind load. I wish Commscope 1 ft dishes would clamp > onto a 1-5/8 dia pipe, or even the leg of a 25G or 45G tower, you shouldn’t > need a 2-3/8 dia pipe for such a little dish. I wish dishes smaller than 4 > ft would still have an attachment point for a support strut. I wish all > dishes had lift hooks. I wish Commscope wouldn’t use stainless hardware that > is prone to seizing, they give you a tube of the silver grease which will get > all over everything if you use it. Radiowaves uses galvanized or > stainless+brass or bronze nuts. > > From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Daniel White > Sent: Wednesday, September 2, 2020 7:25 PM > To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Who installed this?? > > Look at RFS. Over time while I was at SAF they turned into my favorite > antenna vendor. > > When I was at SAF I sometimes worked directly with the antenna vendors as > many of the ones SAF works with are headquartered in the US. Commscope, RFS, > and Radiowaves all had different ideas about costs for shipping vs. costs for > assembling onsite. If you save $50 on shipping and can pay a tower climber > an hour to assemble it... it is worth it potentially in the big picture. > > > Daniel White > Co-Founder & Managing Director of Operations > phone: +1 (702) 470-2770 > direct: +1 (702) 470-2766 > Caleb Knauer > September 2, 2020 at 16:51 > Ok logo looks the same. Radome assembly is different now though. I thought > about taking it apart and flipping but the oopsy risk was high. Way easier > and safer to pull the sticker off and swap the drain plugs. > > We standardized on Radiowaves because they’re already assembled and stouter. > Also stiff arm options are way more flexible. Costs more but the time savings > pay off esp when doing the 4ft+ sizes with what we do. > > > > Ken Hohhof > September 2, 2020 at 14:24 > Like this one we put up I think 2 years ago? > > > <image003.jpg> > > From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Caleb Knauer > Sent: Wednesday, September 2, 2020 2:55 PM > To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Who installed this?? > > I’ve got 3/4/6ft in front of me right now and they’re all vinyl sticker logo. > They may have changed it earlier this year about the same time they stopped > putting the 820 mounting brackets on. Now it’s separate box with some spacers > etc. First round didn’t have any instructions and they weren’t on the website > either. Fun times. > > On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 2:47 PM Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> wrote: > > > Caleb Knauer > September 2, 2020 at 13:55 > I’ve got 3/4/6ft in front of me right now and they’re all vinyl sticker logo. > They may have changed it earlier this year about the same time they stopped > putting the 820 mounting brackets on. Now it’s separate box with some spacers > etc. First round didn’t have any instructions and they weren’t on the website > either. Fun times. > > > > Ken Hohhof > September 2, 2020 at 12:46 > Now that I think of it, we’ve put up several 2 ft 11 GHz Radiowaves dishes > this year and I don’t think any of them had logos on the radomes. Neither > pre-applied nor in the box. > > We also put up some 1 ft 18 GHz Andrew/Commscope dishes and those also had no > logo. No Andrew lightning bolt either. But those are very small dishes. > > From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Chuck McCown > Sent: Wednesday, September 2, 2020 1:27 PM > To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Who installed this?? > > Peel off and leave it or put your own on. > > Sent from my iPhone > > > > > > Chuck McCown > September 2, 2020 at 12:26 > Peel off and leave it or put your own on. > > Sent from my iPhone > > > > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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