Reinforcing A Roof For Antennas

This is a companion to the rooftop mounting guide where we discuss installing an antenna your roof.

Reinforcing a roof for antennas.

Of course when you install any metal pole on your roof you are creating a lightning rod. My roof at the over hang and ran the pipe through that. There are brackets made for chimneys that strap around the. For three cfrp ground planes the in uence on the radiation patterns of monopole antennas for 2 45ghz and 5 9ghz were found to be negligible 10.

An antenna pedestal recently constructed at the canberra deep space communications complex is the subject of this article. Below the lap splices of the upper and lower reinforcing mats in the roof slab. Metal beams or exposed metal reinforcing. These are usually accomplished during a complete re roofing.

4 legged roof towers are better than tripods. I had about 8 feet above the roof line and it held up for 9 years until i moved. This was at least partially confirmed by. The tripod and mast can then be properly grounded.

If you are installing a single antenna it is not more than 1 metre in any linear dimension not including any projecting feed element reinforcing rim mounting and brackets. There will be no more than two antennas on the property overall these may be on the front or back of the building on the roof attached to the chimney or in the garden. Reinforce your roof a properly constructed roof in areas subject to high winds has trusses attached to walls with hurricane tiedowns properly nailed sheathing and heavy duty shingles. The pedestal is a cylindrical structure with a.

View attachment 240024 they can support typical 2m 70cm fm vertical on a 5 foot mast photo above as well as a small vhf uhf yagi antenna with a tv rotator. Glen martin engineering and a few others make high quality light weight all extruded aluminum parts and very strong 4 legged roof towers for antennas. Measurements of the two vehicle to vehicle v2v antennas in an automotive antenna module mounted on a cfrp car roof are presented in 11. Whatever you do do not put holes in your roof to attach your antenna.

It lets you get the antenna up high and pointed at south mountain without you needing to drill holes into your roof. The technically minded may consider getting a a low cost tv antenna signal strength meter to test the coaxial line and measure reception. Plane and a slot antenna in cfrp are presented in 9. Sealed the roof with lots of wet roofing cement and had 3 braces underneath attached to the house.

I was using the biggest antenna that i could buy. Low profile roof tripods for supporting ota tv fm or satellite antennas are cheap available and easy to install. This is a really popular spot for an antenna in the phoenix area. Lightning can be very damaging.

Stronger better balanced more attachment points and the ability to tilt over in either of two directions and not just one like with a tripod.