Brian, The answer is "it depends". If a little water got into an antenna and came back out without staying in there too long, the antenna could be fine. On the other hand, if a lot of water got in and stayed for a while then it could cause corrosion that would prevent the antenna from working properly anymore. The same should apply to the dipole on the grid.
jack Brian Rohrbacher wrote: > So, if I have a suspect antenna that might have got water in it, is it > ruined, or can it dry out, be resealed and work just fine? > > > Specifically, I have a couple omni's from sites that seemed to be under > powered. The culprit could have been the radio card, pigtail, cable or > omni, I don't know. I replaced it all. The reason I ask about the omni > is because way back a few years ago I got paranoid after I have some > water issues. A couple of these omni's I put too much tape and mastic > on the bottom by the connector. I wrapped it up too high and thick and > covered the weep holes in the bottom of the omni. So maybe I got > condensation, or water in there if it could not leak out.... > > So if an omni like that got wet, will it dry and be ok? What about a > dipole on a grid? > > Brian > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > -- Jack Unger - President, Ask-Wi.Com, Inc. Serving the Broadband Wireless Industry Since 1993 Cisco Press Author - "Deploying License-Free Wireless WANs" NEXT ONLINE TRAINING AUGUST 18-19 2008 <http://www.linktechs.net/askwi.asp> FCC Lic. #PG-12-25133 LinkedIn Profile <http://www.linkedin.com/in/jackunger> Phone 818-227-4220 Email <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
