RF armor shields and actual ice shields on the tower.  It doesn't take much.
Basically a grate hooked to the tower a foot or so above your antennas.  If
in doubt find the lower marker lights on the tower. They will most likely
have an ice guard above them.  Use that as a design.

Justin

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From:  Troy Settle <tset...@thewiredroad.net>
Reply-To:  WISPA General List <wireless@wispa.org>
Date:  Thursday, February 7, 2013 3:08 PM
To:  <wireless@wispa.org>
Subject:  [WISPA] Dealing with ice

> I have a site that¹s sitting at about 4500¹ that took some pretty serious ice
> damage.
>  
> In short, we¹re using UBNT¹s antennas and the short jumpers that came with
> them.  Lost about a half-dozen of them during a recent storm, which really
> didn¹t even qualify as an Œice storm.¹
>  
> What can I do to help protect these jumpers from getting torn up by ice?
>  
> What was UBNT thinking when they put the RF connectors on TOP of the rockets?
>  
> -Troy
>  
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