Our Antenna Mounts

Standard Base Antenna

Most base antennas are of the typical fiberglass radome/aluminum tube method as shown in picture.
This simple, but somewhat time consuming method is the most widely used in the industry. One problem than can occur when installing the clamps is, one can possibly install the antenna in a less than straight up position, being left or right of true vertical, or tilted forward/aft of vertical positioning resulting in less than optimal coverage. This is especially important in higher gain antennas with smaller degrees of vertical beam width which will have less room for error for example on a 10 degree vertical beam width window. If the antenna is tilted somewhat, the omni pattern may deliver adequate gain in some directions, but could possible overshoot or provide a null in another direction.
Without having a smooth flat surface to align the brackets to one another, universal mounts take time to assemble, with up to 16 nuts and lock washers, and trying to figure out how to correctly place all the nuts and lock washers to each other is frustrating as well. Spacing the top/bottom clamps requires measuring to assure a plumb mounted antenna when finished. Anyone who has done installs knows all about this method of deployment and the time it takes to do it.

Rapid Mount Series Omni Antenna Mount (Patent Pending Design)

With our Rapid Mount series design, no alignment of the antenna is required by the installer. With our backplane and 4-bolt design, the antenna mounts will self align to the mast it is mounted onto. Also, our antenna can be installed onto the adjoining mast or mounting structure in about 5 minutes. Others take up to 30 minutes just to put the clamps together on the ground prior to installing the actual antenna itself.

Once the omni mount is installed, coax should not need to be removed in the case of a lightning strike or if the gain of the antenna needs to be changed. Simply loosen the top bracket by unscrewing the 4 bolts a few turns, unscrew the antenna from its socket or receiver, and replace with appropriate antenna needed. Whether it be the changing of antenna gains, or the changing of bands, or frequency, the omni fixture is a permanent fixture to the tower or mast. Should lightning take out the coax or blind mate connector, all parts are field replaceable.

With our blind mate connector joining the antenna to the mount, it truly simplifies the way antennas can now be installed. Frequencies of up to 6 GHz can be implemented with this system.

Rapid Mount Series Bidirectional Mount options (Patent Pending Design)

Our Bi-directional antenna mount as shown can be utilized in several ways. First, as a bi-directional mount, both antennas are spaced according to the frequency used and will provide a figure 8 pattern. This allows maximum signal to radiate in two opposite directions of each other,so that minimal side interference is eliminated and maximum gain can be achieved in both directions of each other. By installing different length of antennas, the gains of the bi-directional can be changed to lower or higher gains.

 

A second option utilizing the bi-directional mount is the removal of the phasing harness and matching network box on the underside of the mount. With this removed, one can run two independent coaxes up to each end of the mount to feed two independent antennas. An example may be a low band antenna on one end, and a VHF, UHF, dual band omni, or up to a 6 GHz antenna on the opposite side. Both are in omni mode. Depending on the frequencies, even two dual banded omni antennas may be utilized giving the user 4 different bands on a single mount. A slight ripple effect can be present between both antennas, but not nearly as affected compared to being against a tower face, especially a wider faced tower. Minimal nulling or azimuthal ripple will be seen utilizing this method. If a single mast is all that is available, such as on a tilt over pipe tower, this mount will work very efficiently when side arms are not available, or feasible. It allows two independent antennas to work on same level of each other.

 

The third method is using this mount for an omni, and a yagi. We can provide a blind mate adaptor pipe with any flange type connector at any point along the length of the pipe. With this method the pipe can be screwed down onto the antenna adaptor being mated to the blind mate connector. Then the yagi antenna can be attached to the pipe for the support, as well as a short coax from the yagi antenna can attached to the flange connector mounted on side of pipe. An example of this would be an omni antenna for receiving data, and the yagi pointed to a cellular tower for a backhaul link. Many combinations will work. Panel/panel, yagi/yagi, omni/yagi, omni/omni, etc.