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Jackhammering a hole through solid rock and setting the post for phone and internet from Big Bend Telephone. They will mount a dish on top (10') that will receive the service from a tower on Nine Point Mesa...11 miles away...and run cable 160' through pvc conduit to the equipment at the Casita. Cool Intro - Stings by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) Sahara Rains by Hanu Dixit used by permission from the YouTube Audio Library.
Thanks very much for showing this.
I have one of those tools; but have never made such a deep hole.
Are the location and height determined by line of sight relationship to transmitter / receiver ?
Does the system operate by microwave signal ?
is it a hard cable connection or wireless to the casita?… ~200 feet? nice to have power in the wilderness… BBT will ground it all too? (would think that post would be a lightening magnet)
(I should have read your caption first - never mind…)
…will there be room for the receiver dish & box?
(…are those more Austinites dropping by??)
haven't made it here yet… still hope to visit
QUEMADO, NEW MEXICO
Such amenities there now. :-)
I like the sound of wind. It reminds me of being up north.
Yes... determined by line of site. I think they use microwave radio frequencies like cell phone towers. The furthest customer from this tower is 17 miles away.
Thanks very much for that info.
BBT might not provide a lightning rod or grounding, as a strike on that pole would not affect their tower equipment; but could wipe out your equipment.
It is nearly impossible to install proper grounding rods out here due to very dry soil conditions - and surge protectors are of no use against a direct lighting strike. The equipment inside the casita will be unplugged when the client isn't here. I always unplug everything during lightning storms. They don't happen very often.
Might want to investigate a buried grounding apron made of sheet copper.
I have seen these used in desert locations,e.g., Saudi Arabia.
Testing resistance between the apron and embedded test electrodes would indicate whether resistance was sufficiently low.
There is probably some NEC or IEEE standard for this.
Nothing is grounded at TFL and I have never had a problem.
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