Let us make this topic a showcase of your tower and mast installations of MikroTik products. Post the types of masts and towers that you see the most, and showcase your installations. How are you mounting your devices? Who has the highest installation? Anything interesting is welcome.
We have 4 x BaseBox 5 (RB912UAG-5HPnD) with sector antennas in the Gerbrandy Tower in IJsselstein, Netherlands for the HAMNET network.
They are housed inside a cabin at 220m (the tower itself is 372m high).
Unfortunately in such locations DFS is causing big problems, it false-triggers and makes the channel change unneccesarily…
Picture of the entire tower:
Picture of one of the accesspoints in the cabin:
The site also has a RB260GSP and a RB2011UAS router, and some PtP equipment from the competitor.
Doesn’t have to be “cool”, just post any installation photos where we could see how you mount the products. Any kind of tricky masts, or maybe other challenges you have seen in placing a MikroTik device onto a tower? Close ups welcome.
As you can see there is a panel because we had issues with electricity. SXT for link and other antennas for customers. This base is made on the top of the Hotel.
Hi!
Installation on chimny ~50m hight! We have monted SXT (x3), Mant (x1), DynaDish (x3). We welded special brackets, becouse previous version what we monted on aluminium pipe, was very unstable and was moving in the wind! This is very strong bracket no moving at all!!
Very nice! And mounting is always very important. We have dishes as well in the tower shown on the first picture, in the concrete base. And during a storm the wind is very strong there due to wind deflection around the tower. So we had to make strong mountings as well, and because we used round tubes the dishes still slipped and changed direction…
Otherwise, I see that Latvia is just as flat as the Netherlands!
Small towers fixed on the rocks with steel rods or galvanized iron piles,
We use them for small POPs in the rural areas of Sardinia (IT). Very often in the hills it is not possible to have electricity, so we use 24V photovoltaic panels and batteries. The low power consumption of MT devices allows for electrical continuity throughout all the year.
This type of small POPs are usually made with two or more sectoral antennas mANTBox 15s/19s or MTAS-5G-19D120 with Netmetal and RB2011 for switching.