Hello everybody,
for a change, today I dealt with the covered the
X-Band High Gain Antenna again and initially replaced its surface with a more shiny
silver aluminum foil.
Then I've thought about how I could scratch the continuous
all-round covering of the antenna below the cone, by using
dark paper (After Eight), which on this image could be seen more clearly than I had previously recognized.
Due to the slight inclination of the antenna, I needed the unrolling of this fairing, which I've fiddled with for a while.
To do this, I first cut a strip of paper the length of the circumference of the antenna (Ø 30 mm), which had to be
100 mm.
I then rolled it up and placed it around the antenna so that I could mark the height contour of the antenna against the lamplight,
which wasn't that easy.
I could use this small
plastic can (Ø 30 mm) as a support for the wrinkled lower foil cladding, which does not have sufficient inherent stability, when I mark the determined contour line on it and remove the remaining excess.
This is the unrolling of the cladding, which I can now transfer to the
After Eight paper and cut out after wrinkling and apply it below the antenna,
which I hope will succeed.
