Here's the plan as of today....
5.8 to the motorhome, 2.4 to attendees. (been doing that part for years and
it works well)
5.8 to the vendor area. Separate wifi for the vendors.
For the tower I'm going to build a base with 4x4 thin walled tubing.
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That'll be 3'x4'.
The Rohn tower sections are 18" on a side so the two rails will be at the
right distance for the tower sections to fit near the end. It'll be setup
with pins that go all the way through the 4x4 tubing. The tower sections
will just drop onto the pins and be pinned or bolted into place at that
time.
A truck or trailer will drive up onto the left side of the assembly to hold
it all down.
This should weigh in at a shade over 100 lbs and will take very heavy side
loads.
I got the idea from looking at how some farm machinery was braced together.
laters,
marlon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Lux" <jimlux@earthlink.net>
To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 8:23 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Temp tower idea
> On 3/13/12 12:23 PM, Kipton Moravec wrote:
>> Having experience with HSMM-MESH my recommendation would be to have
>> something that is over peoples heads and then relay it from the edge of
>> the area where there are fewer people and where you can put your taller
>> tower.
>>
>> The biggest issue we have found in the past couple of years is that
>> everything works until people show up. Nowadays everyone has a phone
>> with WiFi that is trying to find a signal and it raises the noise floor.
>> And what worked when testing, does not work when the public shows up.
>>
>> The best fix is to use directional antennas at horizontal polarity, and
>> get the long distance hop away from the 6000 people.
>>
>
>
> What about 5.8 GHz band?
>
>
> But more towards the tower thing..
> One of those 40 ft poles from the Spiderbeam folks could easily hold
> something up at 30+ ft without too much trouble. You'd need to figure
> out some sort of base to hold it upright (i'd look at a tripod of short
> painter poles or 2x4s or something like that.)
>
> At 40 ft, the tippy top is pretty thin and flexible.
>
> They also have taller poles that are bigger.
>
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