Yeah, being in New England area we use Radome's on most of radios on
high locations, but this one would be on top of a ski mountain and there
are other cell phone provider antenna's up there covered pretty think
with rime ice. I know in general ice doesn't attenuate 5Ghz too bad, but
it looks like the build up can be extensive here. Started to look for
heated radome's but again came up empty. Might be one of those deals
where we try it and see what happens.
Bret
On 01/30/2012 02:02 PM, Cameron Crum wrote:
With a radome, the ice shouldn't be too much of an issue unless it
gets really thick. I had some dished here in Texas that I did not put
radomes on, thinking that the one or two days of ice we get a year
would not matter. With about 1/2 inch of ice directly on the end of
the feed, my throughput went to nothing. I added a radome and then
next ice storm with about the same covering of ice had no effect and
my throughput remained constant. I would go with a radome with even a
possibility of ice.
Cameron
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Bret Clark <bcl...@spectraaccess.com
<mailto:bcl...@spectraaccess.com>> wrote:
Anyone have to deal with rime ice on antenna's? We need to build a
PTP link that will be on a top of a mountain that's notorious for
rime Ice. It would be a 5GHz link with sturdy 3ft radome but I'm
not aware at what effect rime ice might have on 5GHz signal if
any? Googling hasn't really bought up any decent info.
Thanks,
Bret
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