Not to ruffle any feathers and not directed at anyone, but lack of problems on a single install does not always coincide with proper approaches on this sort of thing. Best practices are just that--the best approach(es) to doing technical work--there are also bad practices, not so good practices, it may work practices, it should hold practices, and we'll deal with that later practices. They often will get the job done, but, just so that we're all clear on this, none of the later category, no matter how many one-off implementations are functional to some degree or another, will ever be "best practices".
Personally, if I was in your town or especially on any sort of a planning board or whatever, I'd be fairly nervous about the idea of big heavy objects being held up by magnets, especially when (seemingly) it is being done by people who don't necessarily have a lot of experience with calculating load bearing stuff with magnets. The fact that you hold up anecdotal evidence as a basis for its validity rather than "it's engineered to withstand 100Mph winds or whatever pretty much illustrates my point--this is just a bad idea. Just keep in mind that one falling antenna that kills one person is enough to bring out major liability lawsuits that you will not be covered against, not to mention bringing some fairly major legislative regulation and licensing requirements for mounting affecting the whole industry. If I knew that antennas in my area were be magnet-mounted by amateurs, I would be personally leading the charge for some regulation on this. Ok, sorry for any offense. I'm not trying to flame anyone, but this is just not a good idea. -Clint Ricker Kentnis Technologies On 7/12/07, Ray & Jean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Carl We used one from Tessco that has a collar that bolts around the vent on top of tank and adjustable legs for leveling.It has been up there 4 years with no problems.It was easy to install approx 1hour. Ray Hill ----- Original Message ----- From: "J. Vogel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 6:12 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Water Tower Mounts > Carl Shivers wrote: >> We are going to be mounting Panel Sector antennas to 2 Water Towers. One >> tower is ideal with a rail that has been designed for pipe mounting. The >> other is not so kind. It simply has a ladder up the side and over the >> top, >> no catwalk. We were thinking about using one of those 170 lbs. Water >> Tower >> mounts. This means we either have to get a welder up there to weld the >> plates or come up with an industrial epoxy solution. > I have successfully used magnets on a couple of towers for 2 years now... > > I don't completely trust them, so I also run a safety cable around the > mast > and anchor it to a solid projection on the tower so that if the magnets > did > turn loose, the mast wouldn't hit the ground, but in two years, and > through > several thunderstorms and pretty good winds, the magnets haven't shifted > a bit that I can see. > > -- > > John Vogel - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.vogent.net 620-754-3907 > Vogel Enterprises, LLC > Information Services Provider serving S.E. Kansas > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Would you like to see your advertisement here? Let the WISPA Board know > your feelings about allowing advertisements on the free WISPA lists. The > current Board is taking this under consideration at this time. We want to > know your thoughts. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.10.2/894 - Release Date: 7/10/2007 > 5:44 PM > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Would you like to see your advertisement here? Let the WISPA Board know your feelings about allowing advertisements on the free WISPA lists. The current Board is taking this under consideration at this time. We want to know your thoughts. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
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