I just thought I'd share what we do for our tower installs, and find out what/if anything other people are doing.
RF Prep 1. Use Radio Mobile to determine what we will need for antennas, radios, etc. Basic Tower Side/Mounting/Cables 1. Use a 18"-24" standoff mount, or sometimes direct to the leg (sectors and backhauls). 2. Use LMR400 for jumper connections, mastic, tape, butyl, tape. 3. Use CMXR for Cat-5e cable, solder the ground ends, seal around with heatshrink. 4. Use Dielectric Grease on all connections. Protects the Ethernet port and cable from allowing condensation or moisture to build up on the connector and get water inside the cable. I also use it on RF. Once I was on a building and installing a link. I didn't have any tape, so I just used dielectric grease on the connector. I went back to that building a year later and the connections are still solid. I know for a fact I have had water in a connector when only using mastic, so this was bare and it was dry. Link is still solid. 5. Use UV Rated zip ties, so that they don't break later on down the road. Lightning Protection Side 1. Use QLW-8080s Ethernet Surge Suppressor on interior of any MikroTik board. 2. Use PolyPhaser Lightning protection on all connections. 3. Use 600SS or other Canopy Grounding 4. Check the resistance in the current grounding from tower to ground source. 5. Use CMXR for the grounding and double shield. Safety Fall Protection 1. Hard Hats/Helmets Everyone there. 2. Steel-toed boots with the arch plate for standing on those towers. 3. We use Elk River and DBI/Sala Exofit Tower XP Harnesses, 1-2 positioning lanyards and an adjustable lanyard from Petzel. 4. Loads of shackles, beaners, block/pulleys, 5k lb load rope and 1k lb tag line. 5. Cable/Rope Grabs 6. Food/Drink/Hydration (they say water is best at tower class, works for me) 7. Safety plan and project meeting Base 1. We setup a UPS. (sometimes battery banks, depending on the importance of the tower) 2. We install a monitor/remote power switch. 3. Solar panels, aimed per the internet for optimal sun. 4. Trojan Deep Cycle batteries, easy to find at the golf cart shops. 5. Setup a Site Monitor and Sync Injector if Canopy 6. Ground out everything at the base. Setup 600SS and other surge supressors 7. Mount POE's, Switches, etc. to 3/4 " x4'x4' plywood 8. Typically every tower we put up has a RB/450G or a RB/493AH Do a ground run through to make sure you aren't missing anything. Happy vertical travels, and up you go. Take your time, double check everything 3 times, as you don't want to forget and safely come down. I'm probably missing some things here, but that's what I can remember off-hand. Regards, Chuck Hogg Shelby Broadband 502-722-9292 ch...@shelbybb.com http://www.shelbybb.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
