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Photo: Radio Dish climber shadow

  • Post author j2sw
  • Post date October 11, 2019

A very cool photo compliments of Michael Ryan Pelsor

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Tower Photo: Winter is coming

  • Post author j2sw
  • Post date October 11, 2019
  • Categories Tower WISP xISP

WISPs and Tower assets – LLC or what?

  • Post author j2sw
  • Post date September 16, 2019

As a Wireless Internet Service Provider (WISP) grows they tend to acquire some tower assets of their own. What should the do with them?

  • Categories Networking Tower Wireless Wireless xISP

80GHZ microwave antenna alignment (and other mm-wave radios)

  • Post author j2sw
  • Post date August 20, 2019

Recently we had a teaching moment for a couple of folks who had not had much experience with aligning higher frequency antennas with very tight beamwidths.  This particular day we were aligning 2 foot Siklu 80GHZ antennas. One of the questions …

  • Categories equipment Tower Wireless Wireless WISP

Tower climb photos

  • Post author j2sw
  • Post date July 20, 2019

Some random tower photos from the camera roll.

  • Categories news Tower WISP

Some Towers under 200’ now need to be marked

  • Post author j2sw
  • Post date July 11, 2019

Some points from the news article. Communications towers have the option is the key for you WISP friends. New FAA regulations require landowners to mark any towers between 50′ and 200′ on their property, as well as include the towers in a …

  • Categories Tower

Tower Climber Hall of Shame

  • Post author j2sw
  • Post date June 29, 2019

Don’t be these tower climbers and end up on the wall of shame. OSHA will probably be keeping an eye on you if you make this list.

  • Categories Tools Tower

Tower Climb items you never have enough of

  • Post author j2sw
  • Post date June 27, 2019

If you are like me you get to a tower site and don’t have enough Carabiners, or something  You make a mental note to order more, but after a long day you forget

  • Categories Tower

Antennas on the Empire State Building

  • Post author j2sw
  • Post date June 1, 2019

Click to access alford.pdf From an article published in 1967 about the antennas on top of the Empire State Building

  • Categories equipment WISP xISP

PTp550 Throughput with RF elements horns

  • Post author j2sw
  • Post date May 6, 2019

Cambium PTP 550 Throughput with RF elements horns in a noisy environment.

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