I think for antenna mounting your limiting criteria may not be the pole strength related to it breaking but the stiffness related to antenna deflection during wind events mis-aligning your antennas. If you're only mounting APs it would be less of an issue than for a backhaul.
On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 9:03 AM <dmmoff...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Yeah, I think my frustration with this in the past was that what I really > wanted to know was "how many sq feet of antenna can I put on this pole", but > the sources are often more technical than that. Or if they've presented a > rule of thumb it's more about size of strand not size of antenna. > > I think we eventually arrived at the idea that a class 3 pole could carry > more antenna than we could realistically fit on it, so we bought class 3 and > didn't worry about it anymore. > > If the pole already has wireline utilities on it, then engineering the load > is part of the attachment application process and we're paying for that > whether the load is a wire or an antenna so figuring that out is built in to > the process. > > > -Adam > > > -----Original Message----- > From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Chuck McCown via AF > Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2022 7:48 AM > To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> > Cc: Chuck McCown <ch...@go-mtc.com> > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Utility Pole Rating > > As I recall there is a chart or graph that boils it down to a class and > length to wind load. I remember having to determine the load of my planned > cable. The RUS had a great manual about it. > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Feb 15, 2022, at 10:05 PM, Jason McKemie > > <j.mcke...@veloxinetbroadband.com> wrote: > > > > So, as far as I can tell l, utility poles are rated by their moment > > capacity vs. wind loading. Am I interpreting this correctly? If so, is > > there a way to get an approximate wind loading number from the moment > > capacity? -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com > > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
