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Data about PSAS's 13th official flight.
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Find or make a case or box for the TeleMetrum Yagi Antenna #50

Closed dsigma closed 9 years ago

dsigma commented 10 years ago

The Yagi antenna is fragile, and during transport we don't want to damage it.

I'd like a case or box to safely store this in during transport. This could be as fancy as a plastic brief case with custom cut out foam in it it, or as simple as a cardboard box with some hot-glued chunks of foam in bottom.

The yagi is 27" x 14" x 1.5" http://arrowantennas.com/arrowii/440-5ii.html

Note: disassembling this into a tube has been suggested, but I don't want to have to "do stuff" while we're out in the field. I want to pick it up out of the box, and plug it into the USB port. That's it...

nellump commented 10 years ago

Instead of a carrying case that the antenna must be removed from prior to flight, perhaps a sturdy radome that the antenna can be semi-permanently mounted in, and only removed for (hopefully unnecessary) servicing?

natronics commented 9 years ago

We made a quick one for this launch.