[HamWAN PSDR] Lookout maintenance update

[Bart Kus]

Water water everywhere!  New water drainage devices have been installed 
@ Haystack.  May be useful elsewhere.  Surprised to hear SnoDEM was 
affected.  Those cables are really well supported.

--Bart


On 10/28/2023 6:27 PM, Rob Salsgiver wrote:
>
> The maintenance at Lookout is complete.
>
> Problems found on inspection include:
>
>  1. PTP link to Triangle (only one operating) had an abrasion in the
>     CAT5E jacket up next to the dish.  This link has been
>     intermittent, causing the site to go up and down repeatedly, most
>     notably during periods of rain.
>  2. PTP link to SnoDEM was found to have significant damage to the
>     CAT5E jacket toward the upper end where it runs from the main
>     cableway out to the dish.
>  3. Sector 2 is offline (more on this below)
>
> The cause of the damage to both PTP link CAT cables was due to another 
> tenant’s antenna hardline had become detached from it’s mountings and 
> fell toward the inside of the tower, stretching both CAT cables and 
> damaging them.
>
> New CAT cables were pulled for both Triangle and SnoDEM PTP dishes and 
> the site is stable once again and fed from both sources.
>
> Sector 2 is still down, as we simply could not get to it on this 
> trip.  S2 is substantially higher on the tower and after the first two 
> antennas were corrected the call was made to stop there due to fatigue 
> and waning daylight.  It is unlikely that S2 will be fixed before 
> winter, but it should be able to be done as soon as an opening allows 
> in the spring.
>
> While we didn’t go up to examine the cable, it was leaking water 
> through the jacket down at the tower base just like the Triangle and 
> SnoDEM PTP dishes were, so it likely shares the same root cause.
>
> Apologies we weren’t able to get S2 done, but at least it looks to be 
> cabling instead of a hardware issue.  For now S2 has been unplugged at 
> the lightning arrestor.
>
> Thanks to Kenny Richards, Scott Honaker, and Jim Irving for joining me 
> to help make this all happen. We were fortunate to luck into likely 
> the last weather opening for the season.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rob Salsgiver – NR3O
>
>
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