Caring for the Earth station antenna

The simple maintenance for ground station antenna, the antenna can reduce the likelihood of failure and extend the life of the antenna, an antenna to regular and thorough maintenance planning is useful for the operation of the antenna normal.
Maintenance planning is an appropriate kind of commercial insurance. Verify the completion of the entire structure and operational capability of the normal surface maintenance simple and inexpensive, check the electrical performance, and meet the continued regulation in the maintenance book manufacturing operations for the action of the antenna to reduce.
Summarize our company many years of experience in production and maintenance of the antenna and earth station in combination with the return of many customers around the world to create the daily manual inspection. We hope that this manual is to help users make the antenna.
Check the paint surface and the surface of any plating, and the solid structure. The first time rub the rust spot on the surface of galvanized metal wire brush or sandpaper, and then second bottom with a thin coating of zinc — rich, or a layer of rust that advocacy is not necessary to the complete space of rust.For example, the dark surfaces of antenna reflector and easily absorbed, and thus lead to a high temperature, which can cause signal distortion. Nuts, bolts, rivets and other fasteners for installation will be affected by atmospheric effects or internal corrosion. Currently, users have to unscrew the nuts and replace what was lost, rust and corrosive compounds.
With the American Society for Testing and Materials Institute a325 bolts or other occasions of friction components, the user must replace components or corrosive bulk, because in the process of re-tightening the fasteners will reuse the period. a325 bolts corrosive metal parts must be replaced not be tightened.
Often there are places in the pivot axis of the antenna bracket adjustable. Ensure that the activities of these assemblies are flexible, and the lubricating oil through a grease gun with spray oil. If the antenna does not rotate flexible, the user must replace the pin.
Check the metal connectors on the folder structure antenna reflector. Loss, rust and corrosion fasteners must be replaced.These verification processes, are also suitable for the operating platform for reassembly of the antenna, and to support the reflector and reflector support.

Inspect if the system of grounding mechanical and no mechanical link are connected.According to test results, the user can decide the cost of digging to completion. Make sure the mechanical parts are grounded rust, corrosion or loosening.Replace fasteners rust and corrosion so that the limit value of inductance.Remove the earth strong dogleg to the main antenna or support. According to test results to determine whether additional measures to earth.
If the pedal is not flat it is, it may be the influence have on the position of the antenna calculation. Adjust the nut at the sub the base plate to pass the antenna to keep airborne levels.If the anchor bolts to prevent the stopper pedal set up, to fit where the finding of the antenna. After adjustment, check the tightness of the cement foundation of the antenna and bolts to crushing and displacement. If some units that are mounted into the wall socket antenna which are at the back of the reflector, check if there is accumulated water must be, or a large number of termites or activities of infected rodents in zone. If the user does not care, will be ants, mice and other animals cause incredible losses.