Wall of shame installations

[kb4mdz]

Nice way to dress a piece of hardline:

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[Bill_G]

I like the double hose clamp. It's a nice touch.

[kb4mdz]

Thanks, Bill. I always forget how to load pictures.

[kb4mdz]

How would you like to be business or public safety entity paying for this installation:

[Bill_G]

You gotta get rid of the .html and other stuff at the end leaving just .jpg suffix.



The bucket is very classy.

ps -This one has a lot of spaces in the filename making it difficult to link.

[FMROB]

at lest they used rg142, lol. I am going to dig thorugh my pics. I know that I have some classic shots.

[kb4mdz]

And yes, that is mouse feces all over the floor and everything else and all the other repeaters in there. Never thought when I went into this biz that I would be encountering such health hazards.

[Bill_G]

Yep. Mice are a problem everywhere. And where there are mice, there are snakes to eat them. I have several sites I've learned to wear tall boots, kick rocks, tap stuff with a stick, and generally stomp around just to get the rattlers to speak up so I know where they are.

[jmfirefighter20]

One of my sites is one of two locations in NH where Timber Rattlers nest. I've heard stories from other people in the office about pulling snake skins out of the power supplies on some of our equipment up there. I was told to always look before I put my hand in anything up there.......

[kb4mdz]

Anyone have pics of places where the surge suppression is a couple overhand knots in the power cord, to keep lightning form entering the power supply?

Come one, come all. Spider webs, mouse turds, weeds, bird nests, snake (live, deceased or shed skins). Stacked radios, open circuit boards, you name it we wanna see it. Tell the good people that somebody paid real money for this work by a 'professional'

[kb4mdz]

SCADA, atop a water tank, a node; several sites report in to this one, which forwards up the line; gee, after the painters got done, the site went offline, as well as all sites that reported in to it.







Even tho the painters had been instructed to not mess with the antenna line, they did by accident, then tried to just push it back together.

What? I don't know nothing about touching no antenna line. Who told you that??

[escomm]

It obviously did it all by itself, duh

[FMROB]

I have been waiting for this thread to appear, lol

Here is some that I had handy. I really have to dig into the smartphone for the up close ones that make you say, "are you kidding me". Most of these shots were taken on site walks' prior to taking over an account from another vendor. The sad part is that every one of these installations were done by large Motorola "MSS" shops here local. Great for us I guess.

[FMROB]

Figured I add one good one, at lest I think

Getting ready to crane lift a ground rigged 120' antenna pole. Fancy crane work by the boys.

[twowayradiony]

Jeesh that work looks similar to the work a local MSS up here does!!

[Bill_G]

You'll like this one - I was just at this site in Idaho day before yesterday. Just getting home today. This is a cell carrier site. Several of them are colo'd on the same tower. We were doing midnight work during the maintenance window. Take a look dead center of the picture. See the 2ft dish? This is a four leg box frame tower that's only about 50ft tall because of the hilltop elevation. It has a bunch of stuff on it including this 2ft dish INSIDE the tower shooting across the top of the 6ft foot dish and through the cross members.




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Not our work.

We were there to drop the 6ft, put up a new 4ft, put an ice shield over it, align it, and call it a night.

Yes, we tried our best to ensure the new ice shield did not obscure the 2ft inside the tower any worse than it already was. Good luck with that boyz.

[FMROB]

Very special in deed Bill.

[Bill_G]

Rob - you have some jaw dropping pictures, and unfortunately, I've seen work like that myself. Honestly, I think it indicates more a lack of mentoring and leadership than a lack of skill. No one showed them how it was supposed to be done. "It's a training issue" is my judicious phrase.

Years ago we finally won a contract from our competition to install a new system for an agency we had romanced for a while. There was a lot of hokey doke going on at their prime site. Not quite as bad as a repeater on a bucket, but let's say that cable management was not part of their skill set. We put in four racks of equipment with wiring and hardline that looked like conduit. Work of art. That forced our competition to up their game, and now they do pretty good work.

Of course, that workmanship costs more, and it opens the door for the next glove box radio guy to blow into town charging $35/hr. He gets a few customers, but eventually they get tired of lackluster performance and reliability. Over the last couple years I've gotten to replace systems I put in twenty years ago that have had very few outages because it got built right. The site log book reads "PM, PM, PM, PM, site audit, PM, Air conditioner, PM, Power supply, PM, ...." all through the years without a single problem with the majority of the equipment. It goes in once. I love doing that.

[FMROB]

Spot on bill,

Sad to say that most of the work that I see I know was done by guys that should know what they are doing. It feels good to have happen exactly what you said happen. Install it right the first time, good PM program and it just works. It is just a good feeling to do good work and at the end of the job step back and know that it looks good and will work.

Rob

[MassFD]

But Rob

No one told us not to use the connector as a climbing peg to reach the toilet paper stored on the shelf above the radio LOL

It was a Janitors closet first till you came in with all your dang radios

[Bill_G]

Something tells me you speak from experience....

[MassFD]

Bill

Not in my place but have seen it in many others, the 1 that is stuck in my mind is a site that had all the inter rack cabling run on the floor. It was imposable to walk between racks without steping on cables. Sad part is a lot of them were old unused never removed cables with new stuf on top. They seemed proud of the installation, I have seen cleaner piles of cable in the scrap yard wating to be weighed in.

Hey Rob, Forgot to mention, real nice job on that Monopole. Sure wish we could have done ours that way but glad we did not. I am just happy ours went up without tearing the cross arms off.

[kb4mdz]

Very special in deed Bill.

Nice layer of dust in the grill; appropriately climate controlled location, eh?

[FMROB]

Kevin,

Thank you. We have done a few poles on the ground and I am getting spoiled quickly. So much nicer working on terra firma, then swinging 120' up in the air. It is however a real PIA to pull the cable through the pole and out the holes, especially 7/8 or larger.

We roll the cable up about 10' above grade and hang it from the pole, so the crane picks to pole freely. I would assume the amount of cable would be prohibitive, we have rolled up about 7 runs of 7/8 that were about 70' long, and it was a task. I also like to quickly temp. terminate the lines and give them a sweep to make certain that what is going up doesn't have to come down. Other than that works well.

Rob