Field notes
Safety, engineering and lessons from the tower — written by the people who climb them.
From Florida to Arizona: scaling a family crew across four states
What changes when a two-man Davenport operation becomes a four-state contractor — and what we refused to change: training, safety culture and the owner answering the phone.
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How we run zero-injury tower crews
The training, checks and daily habits behind our safety record — from harness inspection to rescue drills.
PIM mitigation: why it matters for 5G
Passive intermodulation quietly kills throughput. Here's how we find it, fix it and prove it's gone.
5 checks before your small cell go-live
A field checklist we run on every deployment so the site passes carrier acceptance the first time.
Reading a tower like a rigger: the pre-climb inspection
Ten minutes on the ground that decide how the whole climb goes — our inspection walkthrough.
Build-to-suit without the change orders
How tight scoping up front keeps budgets intact — and clients coming back for the next site.
What carrier acceptance actually checks
Sweep traces, PIM numbers, photos, closeout docs — the acceptance package, demystified.