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Tower & Antenna Work

Climbing the tower, mounting the antenna, running and terminating the feed line — and never designing a wireless site the same way afterwards.

Also known as Tower Climbing, Feed Line, Grounding and Bonding

Left to right is time. Each row is one of the 6 disciplines this one worked alongside, ordered so kindred disciplines sit next to each other rather than alphabetically — a landscape only means anything if neighboring rows belong together. Height is the work running in that domain in that year, weighted by what failure would have cost — life-safety ×3, a statutory obligation ×2.2, the estate itself ×1.5, an evaluation ×1. Every project declares which of those it was, so each ridge traces to an entry you can open and disagree with. Only the work that used this technology is counted, so what shows here is the company it kept rather than the record around it. Height and color are on the record-wide scale rather than this page’s own, so a modest estate draws a modest landscape and any two of these pages can be read against each other.

Climbed the towers and installed the antennas by hand, along with the LMR feed line, cabling and supporting infrastructure, at Nassau County and on wireless work across Florida.

Mounting and alignment, feed line runs and connectorization, grounding and bonding, weatherproofing, and the rest of the physical requirements that decide whether a site still works in year five rather than only in week one.

Designing the RF and then building it with your own hands teaches which parts of a drawing survive contact with a tower and which do not. I have never since designed a wireless site without thinking about who has to install it.

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