box
http://www.mouser.com/Search/ProductDetail.aspx?qs=vAU5MGaee3qmDc63nJzX6w%3D%3D
feed through
box
http://www.mouser.com/Search/ProductDetail.aspx?qs=vAU5MGaee3qmDc63nJzX6w%3D%3D
dome mount
http://www.rightchannelradios.com/firestik-dm4-dome-mount.html
grounding post
http://www.advantagehobby.com/160940/TTRPJ6173/?utm_source=google%2Bshopping&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=product
of course hamilton would probably be glad to sell you the aluminum mounts.
problem solved.
someone who has access to a large field get cracking on testing the thing outdoors over a large radial system.
i have handed you an oem parts list on a silver platter!!!!
i know where there is a field but don't have access to a car battery for testing out in open field
of course the more people buy from me (items in classifieds section) the more i am able to fund these experiments.
keep that in mind.
I find it rather curious that tests need to be done only if the unit is within an outdoor box. Why not just velcro or bungie strap the unit to an existing outdoor setup and simply wire it in to do tests?
The box is not going to make or break the end results or have anything to do with how any particular transmitter performs into an outdoor system.
As I said before, testing a transmitter intended to operate off a piece of wire and not an outdoor system should be tested in those conditions..ie piece of wire. At that point there is no point in an outdoor enclosure or testing the transmitter with another that is designed to operate on an outdoor system.
No doubt the 5k will have great performance. That is not the issue. The issue is having it tested in a real world application, be it a piece of wire strung across the roof, or tied to an outdoor 3 meter antenna over a ground radial system. Since the Rangemaster and Procaster are designed to work outdoors over a radial system, regardless that they can also work off a piece of wire, the intent of doing fair review of ANY unit is to review them in their intended environment conditions as they were marketed to do so.
The bench only establishes a baseline, not actual real world performance. Your preliminary tests have provided a lot of valuable information beings no one else has even bothered to take the initiative as you have. So far your results are the only worthwhile results involving a real world outdoor setup of it's category and provides a hell of a lot more data than some mere dummy load and a DVM reading.
Salutes!!
RFB
will eventually repeat the same exact test for the rangemaster and not the readings and post them here.