[Boatanchors] Antenna tower problems

Tue, 10 Feb 2004 06:21:12 -0600

Birds landing on antenna elements is a common problem with FAA antennas.  
Some of the solution attemps were:  Installing "tie wraps" leaving the long 
tail sticking up.....this goosed the bird when landing and discouraged them. 
  Sometimes short sections of PVC pipe were put on the elements, these were 
loose and tended to rotate when birds attempted to land on the elements.

We did have an instance of vultures roosting on a passive microwave 
repeater......couldn't solve that problem, they didn't really cause a real 
problem, just made a real mess when the semi annual reflector alignment was 
done.

73, Jim, wd4air

>From: "William L Howard" <[email protected]>
>To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>,"armyradios" 
><[email protected]>
>Subject: [Boatanchors] Antenna tower problems
>Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 01:05:24 -0500
>
>I am having to replace my 30 foot outdoor antenna because, and you ain't
>gonna believe this, an Eagle has been perching on it and collapsed
>several of the arms.
>
>Does anybody have a cure for this?
>
>Bill Howard
>
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