I don’t think we have had a single licensed backhaul make it the entire 10 year FCC license period without having to replace it with higher capacity equipment. I prefer the Andrew/Commscope antennas for their ability to easily and cost effectively swap between radio manufacturers without replacing the antenna. I really don’t need seized hardware and rusty adjustment plates that weld themselves together. It makes reusing the antenna very difficult.
Mark > On Sep 3, 2020, at 6:31 AM, Matt Hoppes <mattli...@rivervalleyinternet.net> > wrote: > > 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 >> <mailto: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 <mailto: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 >> <mailto: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 <mailto:cknauer.li...@gmail.com> >> 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 <mailto:af...@kwisp.com> >> 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> <mailto: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> >> <mailto: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 >> <mailto:af...@kwisp.com>> wrote: >> >> >> Caleb Knauer <mailto:cknauer.li...@gmail.com> >> 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 <mailto:af...@kwisp.com> >> 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> <mailto: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> >> <mailto: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 <mailto:ch...@wbmfg.com> >> 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 <mailto:AF@af.afmug.com> >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> <http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com> > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com <mailto:AF@af.afmug.com> > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > <http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com>
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