[Boatanchors] Repeater antenna on a cold mountain top

[KA4INM]

On 11/14/13 01:47, HL1FB wrote:

> We are installing a 70cm repeater on the summit of a 1600meter mountain.

> Temperature there goes down to -20 degree centigrade and everything will

> frozen covered with ice in winter. Antenna there is also expected to be covered with

> thick ice. So antenna performance will be poor, I guess.

> How poor will the antenna performance be?

> My question is what kind of antenna will be suitable for this kind of environment.

> Any body has experience??

  No experience, but a simple fiberglass station master (Hi-Gain made 
mine and it is 7 feet tall) can easily be painted with that special 
paint that does NOT allow ice to stick, but it must be replaced every 
two or three years.
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