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. <https://atheral.co/wp-content/uploads/Atheral-Logo-Vertical-Grad-150px-x-86px.png> 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? From: AF <mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com> <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Caleb Knauer Sent: Wednesday, September 2, 2020 2:55 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <mailto:af@af.afmug.com> <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 <mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com> <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Chuck McCown Sent: Wednesday, September 2, 2020 1:27 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <mailto:af@af.afmug.com> <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
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