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Pepro unveils new 60-foot deployable tower at IWCE 2015

Pepro unveils new 60-foot deployable tower at IWCE 2015

Pepro demonstrates the HCLP-600, a low-profile mobile tower site that can be deployed in less than 30 minutes and features an equipment shelter with the company’s Faraday Cage technology that is designed to withstand a lightning strike.
  • Written by Donny Jackson
  • 2nd April 2015

LAS VEGAS—Pepro recently demonstrated the HCLP-600, a low-profile mobile tower site that can be deployed in less than 30 minutes and features an equipment shelter with the company’s Faraday Cage technology that is designed to withstand a lightning strike. The company exhibited the new tower during the IWCE 2015 show last month.

Pepro has been developing the HCLP-600 for more than a year, trying to include the myriad characteristics desired by manufacturers and integrators that are interested in participating in the deployment of the FirstNet public-safety LTE system, according to Pepro CEO Victor Garmong.

“They all wanted as high a tower as they could go, and 60 feet came out to the best common denominator for everything,” Garmong said during an interview with IWCE’s Urgent Communications. “They wanted it light, so they could pull it with a pickup truck. They wanted it small, so they can drive it into a parking garage and deploy it on top.”

As a result, the Pepro HCLP-600 is transported as a package that weighs 9,480 pounds and  measures 8’6” wide, 6’6” high and 16 feet long. However, once at the site, the four-section lattice tower extends to a 60-foot telescoping lattice tower made of galvanized steel, Garmong said.

“It looks small, but you have a huge tower with a huge capability,” he said. “It’s almost like a Transformer; it doesn’t even look like what it is when you have it deployed, because it’s in such a very small package.”

The sections of the tower are positively locked into place while the tower is parallel to the ground, and then hydraulics are used to erect the tower within three minutes, Garmong said.

“When it gets to the vertical position, it automatically shuts off—and the same thing happens when you are lowering the tower,” Garmong said. “The other great thing about it is that all of the cables are deployed while it is laying flat on the ground, waist high—you don’t have to climb anything.

“We have one wrench that we use to tighten the locking mechanism, and you’re ready to go. It’s a very unique arrangement, and we have a patent pending on this.”

In addition, because of the existence of the Faraday Cage shelter, the HCLP-600 does not have to be grounded, Garmong said.

“You can set it up on a blacktop or cement, and the Faraday Cage protects the equipment inside it,” he said. “If it gets hit with a lightning strike, that protects it, until the strike dissipates.

 “The total deployment is going to be roughly 15 to 20 minutes. We say less than 30 minutes in our literature, but we have found that once we get fine-tuned and we give people the instructions, they find a natural sequence to do this, and they’ll do this in 15 to 20 minutes.”

Pepro’s product literature claims that the new mobile tower handles a maximum antenna weight of 350 pounds, but the company recently completed a successful test of supporting a 520-pound antenna from a potential manufacturer partner, Garmong said.

Reaction to the HCLP-600 tower during IWCE 2015 was very positive, a fact that Garmong attributed to booth visitors having a greater appreciation for the value of rugged and resilient infrastructure.

“Up until this year, we would get resistance to buying our shelters and everything, because they were more costly than the ordinary cabinet,” Garmong said. “That didn’t happen this year. This year, they’re wanting to know what we have and what we can do. I think virtually every one of the people that were there understood what they need to do to harden their sites—they have to have a Faraday Cage to do that.”

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  • Pepro demonstrates the HCLP-600, a low-profile mobile tower site that can be deployed in less than 30 minutes and features an equipment shelter with the company’s Faraday Cage technology that is designed to withstand a lightning strike.
  • Pepro demonstrates the HCLP-600, a low-profile mobile tower site that can be deployed in less than 30 minutes and features an equipment shelter with the company’s Faraday Cage technology that is designed to withstand a lightning strike.
  • Pepro demonstrates the HCLP-600, a low-profile mobile tower site that can be deployed in less than 30 minutes and features an equipment shelter with the company’s Faraday Cage technology that is designed to withstand a lightning strike.
  • Pepro demonstrates the HCLP-600, a low-profile mobile tower site that can be deployed in less than 30 minutes and features an equipment shelter with the company’s Faraday Cage technology that is designed to withstand a lightning strike.

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