Most communications companies subcontract their tower work. Capital Area Communications does not. We run our own tower crews, which means the people who design your system are the same people who climb the structure and install it.
That matters most when something is wrong. When a fault sits somewhere between the radio, the line and the antenna, a single team that owns the whole path finds it faster than three companies pointing at one another.
Our own tower crews
Our crews are employees, not subcontractors booked by the day. They work to a schedule we control, which means we can commit to dates, respond when weather moves a job, and return to a site we already know when it needs service.
Keeping the work in-house also keeps the knowledge in-house. The crew that installed your site has seen its access, its power, its grounding and its quirks — and that history stays with us rather than leaving when a contract ends.
Antenna and line installation
Hanging hardware is the visible part of tower work and the least forgiving. Antennas have to sit at the right height, at the right azimuth and downtilt, on mounts that will hold alignment through ice and wind for years.
Our crews handle the full installation:
- Antenna mounting, orientation and alignment
- Transmission line and jumper runs, with proper support and weatherproofing at every connection
- Line sweeping and testing, so the system is proven before it is handed over
- Grounding and lightning protection through the run
- Removal and replacement of existing hardware on live sites
Every connection is a potential point of water ingress and every unsupported run is a future failure. The difference between a site that works for a decade and one that needs revisiting after a season is almost always in this detail.
Equipment shelters
A tower is only half of a site. The equipment at its base needs somewhere secure, climate-controlled and properly powered — and that shelter has to be built for the equipment going into it rather than adapted afterwards.
We build and fit out shelters as part of the same project:
- Interior fit-out — racking, cable management, and entry ports sized for the run
- Power distribution, backup power and environmental control
- Grounding tied into the tower and site ground system
- Physical security and access control where the site requires it
Because the same team handles the tower and the shelter, the cable entry, grounding and rack layout are planned together instead of being reconciled on site by two contractors who have never met.
Microwave path engineering
Microwave links carry traffic between sites where fiber is impractical or too expensive to reach. They are also unforgiving: a path that looks clear on a map can fail in practice because of terrain, a tree line that will grow, or a building that was not there when the survey was done.
Pathing a microwave link properly means:
- Path survey and line-of-sight verification between sites
- Terrain and obstruction analysis, including growth and future construction
- Link budget and availability calculation for the frequency and distance involved
- Antenna sizing, height and alignment at both ends
- Licensing and frequency coordination support
- Commissioning and performance testing once the link is live
We path, install and align both ends of the link — so if the path does not perform as designed, there is one team responsible for finding out why.
Talk to us about your site
Whether you are building a new site, adding capacity to an existing one, or dealing with a tower that is not performing, we can survey the site and tell you plainly what it needs.
Contact us or request a quote.
