{"id":2382,"date":"2018-08-20T15:24:03","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T15:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mtin.net\/blog\/?p=2382"},"modified":"2018-08-20T15:24:03","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T15:24:03","slug":"hangers-to-help-with-pim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mtin.net\/blog\/hangers-to-help-with-pim\/","title":{"rendered":"Hangers to help with PIM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you running <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telrad.com\/\">Telrad<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baicells.com\/\">Baicells<\/a>? Need a solution to get every bit you can out of the system? Don&#8217;t forget your hangers can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtin.net\/blog\/wisp-lte-pim-testing-and-quality\/\">influence pim\u00a0<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Traditional hangers and diameter-specific grommet combinations complicate installations, making it difficult to secure cables from wind and vibration, which can cause passive intermodulation (PIM) problems.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tessco.com\/search?utm_source=Email&amp;utm_medium=Blast_Email&amp;utm_campaign=FM39&amp;mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTURZNE5UWXhZems1TURObCIsInQiOiJtSEE2Vk1DRHl3ZFQrcytcL2loN0xJdlczODdKWHZoMnU2Y2orVHFrOWd6b1pHbVAyRmtGcFlJVE5mejFicUltak5YMDc4Rk1lYXJrckc4dFZiMWowTzBySmh4R09LalJDajdUWlFROXQ3dnNDTTc0K056UDMrd3ZSY1wvRmtyUlJXIn0%3D#q=264129%20OR%20243860%20OR%20288490%20OR%20207219\">PIM hangers from Tessco<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img data-attachment-id=\"2383\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.mtin.net\/blog\/hangers-to-help-with-pim\/attachment\/5449963\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mtin.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/5449963.jpg?fit=250%2C250&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"250,250\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"5449963\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mtin.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/5449963.jpg?fit=250%2C250&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mtin.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/5449963.jpg?fit=250%2C250&amp;ssl=1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2383\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mtin.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/5449963.jpg?resize=250%2C250\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mtin.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/5449963.jpg?w=250&amp;ssl=1 250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mtin.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/5449963.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you running Telrad or Baicells? Need a solution to get every bit you can out of the system? Don&#8217;t forget your hangers can influence pim\u00a0. Traditional hangers and diameter-specific grommet combinations complicate installations, making it difficult to secure cables from wind and vibration, which can cause passive intermodulation (PIM) problems.\u00a0 Check out PIM hangers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[418,51,156],"tags":[421,422,419,141],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mtin.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/5449963.jpg?fit=250%2C250&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VLMf-Cq","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1518,"url":"https:\/\/www.mtin.net\/blog\/wisp-lte-pim-testing-and-quality\/","url_meta":{"origin":2382,"position":0},"title":"WISP LTE, PIM testing, and quality","author":"j2sw","date":"March 13, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"One of the topics that came up during the Baicells troubleshooting tips was the notion of PIM testing, and cables which are PIM rated. 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