Sterling Spring

Sterling Spring, LLC is a provider of quality custom antennas and value-added antenna assemblies. Every aspect of your account is managed by a single point-of-contact to promote transparency in our production process which encourages quick and easy communication to improve our customer's experience. We are able to leverage our expertise and technology to deliver high quality custom antenna products and services that meet each client's unique communications and two-way needs.We manufacture endless styles, shapes and sizes of antennas built on our top-of-the-line CNC equipment and custom-built machinery specific for servicing our antenna customers. We have computerized centerless grinding capabilities that can provide our customers with extremely precise antenna rods that are gun-barrel straight or tapered from end to end. Sterling's secondary CNC equipment can coil, bend, pigtail, swage, trim, deburr and chamfer antenna rods to meet our customer's print specifications. We have in-house capabilities to mass produce antenna balls and utilize screw machine equipment to manufacture countless options of antenna bases. Sterling's commitment to investment in our antenna department has created a one-stop-shop for all of your antenna needs. Our antenna assembly process provides value-added services that reduces lead times and streamlines our customer's purchasing requirements. We can safely secure the antenna base to the rod and swage-fit the ball on the tip of the rod to provide our customers with a ready to install antenna. We have fully calibrated pull-testing equipment that can allow us to meet your destructive test requirements.

This whip antenna assembly displays not only our antenna and screw machine manufacturing capabilities but also our assembly or value-added portion of the business. The rod is formed from .100" 302 stainless steel through multiple different station setups on our CNC coilingbending equipment then are trimmed, deburred and ready for assembly. The antenna ball is composed of .250" 304 stainless steel which is formed on our screw machine with programmed memory to make setups quick, consistent and efficient.The antenna ball is then swaged to the rod to complete the assembly. A rare feature that Sterling provides is our pull testing capabilities that will verify strength of the assembly to ensure the ball cannot be easily removed from the rod. This part is subject to a 100 pound pull test, which is tested on our custom built (in-house) pull testing equipment that is calibrated annually by a certified outside source. The finished antenna assembly measures 11.32" in length and is good representative of the many antennas that our antenna department manufactures. At Sterling Spring we produce 15, 000 of these antenna assemblies annually and we deliver to a major communications manufacturer.