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Broadcast Site Maintenance

Regular maintenance will extend the life of your antenna array, identify any potential problems and help keep you on the airYearly maintenance and ongoing monitoring of broadcast sites is vital to keeping you on the air. Preventative maintenance, combined with yearly reporting can diagnose and help schedule repairs, keeping your advertisers happy and your site operating at peak performance.

What services do ZCG Scalar offer ?

  • Yearly inspections and reporting.
  • Yearly preventative maintenance.
  • Emergency maintenance and repairs.
  • Refurbishment and tuning of antenna arrays.
  • Standby system recommendation and installation.
  • Aviation warning light changes.

Why perform yearly maintenance ?

  • Yearly maintenance and reporting can keep you ahead of any issues.
  • Having a maintenance history makes it easy to diagnose faults when they do occur.
  • Weather, birds and UV light can have a devastating effect on sealing. Checking and resealing connectors yearly can save you downtime in the futureHaving a well planned yearly maintenance schedule is cost effective, where as a week outage caused by an unknown failure or fault is not.

What is involved with refurbishment ?

The level and type of refurbishment required will determine whether we work on the antennas while they are still on the tower, or remove them and ship them back to our maintenance and repair facility.

Arranging for ZCG Scalar Site Maintenance Services

If you would like more detailed information about ZCG Scalar's Site Maintenance Services, please contact the Technical Services Division to discuss your requirements. You can also request a quotation for Site Maintenance Services here ยป

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