Ice + Mt. Pisgah + Temporary Grid Antenna = Doom.
This past winter we had a very brutal winter here in Western North Carolina. We were the victim of falling ice on several occasions this past winter. What I learned this winter was if your deployment is 2500ft in elevation or higher & you don’t have prime top space on the tower you are installing on you had better use Ice bridges & radome. This video below shows one of our temporary grids that was smashed this past winter. :(
Here are a few photos after we corrected the ice problems.
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- Radome Installed. :) = Happy people.
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- I think it will survive the next winter now :)
June 25th, 2010 at 9:53 am
Those grids don’t survive ice chunks. We have also found that water will get in the feedhorns of the pacwireless grids. We have switched our clients to panels and dishes for this reason.
June 25th, 2010 at 9:59 am
[...] What Ice does to Grids J.J. has a good video over on his blog about grid antennas and Ice. You can view the post here. [...]
June 25th, 2010 at 11:22 am
Yeah I have seen that very same thing with the “pac” style grids not being water resistant enough. We also have almost switched completely to panels or pie plates ie. backfire dishes. You have any experience with the Poynting Antennas? http://www.poynting.co.za/ I haven’t personally used them.