I hate y'all are having storms and even worse that it has knocked y'all off line at different towers.
It's been "almost" intolerable here too: http://www.weather.com/weather/wxdetail/71269?from=yest_bottomnav_undeclared Mac -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Koskenmaki Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2006 10:19 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] DAY FROM HELL!!! The storm here on Thursday night tore one of my sites down. ONE 2 foot dish and one sector, were not able to be supported by the galvanized pipe just 7 feet. The wind bent it over at 20 degrees... and then the guy wire snapped in the upwind direction, causing the whole thing to snap off... The guys were below the sector, which was directly below the dish, and it bent 2" pipe (I think it was 2, maybe 1.5"). Either way, it bent over that pipe like nothing. The site had been through many 70+ mph storms without even being tweaked. For comparison purposes, I set up a 1" pipe and jumped on the middle, supported at the ends and could not bend it like that... (and I'm 275 lbs ) The guy wire was tension wire sold for holding up orchard trees! The pulling tension capability was way beyond 1000lbs. The site's still down, as yesterday, the wind was still screaming along at 40 mph, and we would not even attempt to raise the masting. It's under 20 feet above the barn roof, but we were afraid to get on the barn ourselves, much less attempt to raise 18 feet of pipe, antennas, and guy wires into place up on top of it. Hopefully by Sunday, the wind has died and it has not snowed again :(. When we left at 4:30 last night, the wind was still at 30-40 mph and it was well below freezing. brrrrrr... +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ neofast.net - fast internet for North East Oregon and South East Washington email me at mark at neofast dot net 541-969-8200 Direct commercial inquiries to purchasing at neofast dot net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Nash - Lists" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 3:02 PM Subject: [WISPA] DAY FROM HELL!!! > Wind storms came through last night. Power out at 6 sites this morning, > various power companies. Started at 6 this morning...Put in 2 generators, > purchased 8 marine batteries and patched them into my APC UPS units. 2 > sites now still running on batteries, 2 on generators. Will be a late night > I think... > > George, I would imagine you guys had it worse out there on the coast... > > Mark Nash > Network Engineer > UnwiredOnline.Net > 350 Holly Street > Junction City, OR 97448 > http://www.uwol.net > 541-998-5555 > 541-998-5599 fax > > > -- > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
