Re: Accelerated Lifetime Testing for Antennas

Howard Eisenhauer wrote:
O.K. folks, can anyone recommend a facility that does ALT? I've got
some sample 900 mhz panel antennas that are coming from an un-known,
i.e. Chinese, manufacturer that we need to put through the paces
before they can be adopted for use. Now, theres no active components
here, about the worst that can happen is a bad solder joint but if the
joints are gonna go bad we'd rather know about it before we've had a
thousand or so of these up the towers for a while. What we're
looking for is temp cycling and vibration, any suggestions?

Thanks,

H.

I would also be concerned with passive intermodulation (PIM) if you are installing these on multi user/multi carrier towers. If these are really cheap antennas with dissimilar metals at the "joints" and junctions, you may be in for a surprise.

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