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Radio Site & Tower Design

Tower and site design, coverage validated in the field, and redundancy that had to be proven before a storm rather than during one.

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Owned tower and site design, RF propagation and multipath analysis, and disaster recovery for the regional radio system.

Redundancy had to survive the loss of a site, and had to be proven before a storm rather than during one. Seven emergency activations as Emergency Coordination Officer supplied the proof.

Tower and site construction was coordinated with the Federal Aviation Administration in a county carrying an international airport, an FAA-licensed spaceport and several airfields, which makes obstruction evaluation and height limits a design input rather than a permit. The constraint lands on antenna height, which is the one variable coverage most wants to increase.

Subtopics

  • Tower & Antenna WorkClimbing the tower, mounting the antenna, running and terminating the feed line — and never designing a wireless site the same way afterwards.

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2 further projects reference a subtopic of this entry rather than the entry itself.

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