Something just dawned on me.
I have been painting the wooden booms of my antenna
Does painting a boom affect it ?
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew Rich VK4TEC vk4tec@people.net.au http://www.tech-software.net
Well, what color did you paint them?
D. Goncalves W1EUJ
On 12/27/07, Andrew Rich vk4tec@people.net.au wrote:
Something just dawned on me.
I have been painting the wooden booms of my antenna
Does painting a boom affect it ?
Andrew Rich VK4TEC vk4tec@people.net.au http://www.tech-software.net
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Worse case, it would be no different then using a metal boom. It would detune it slightly so you'd see some distortion of pattern or impedance match issues. If it was me, I would not loose sleep over it. It might need some tweaking.
We find in cellular at 850 MHz that we have to use paint without metal when covering the fiberglass raydomes but painting the boom is nothing like that. But unless you going to put this behind a painted wall it's not an issue big issue.
Dave ______________________ WB7DRU Burnsville, MN
-----Original Message----- From: amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Rich Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2007 6:44 PM To: Amsat-Bb@Amsat. Org Subject: [amsat-bb] Paint and RF
Something just dawned on me.
I have been painting the wooden booms of my antenna
Does painting a boom affect it ?
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew Rich VK4TEC vk4tec@people.net.au http://www.tech-software.net
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Latex should be fine, i would think. Just make sure it's not from China, the lead is an excellent shield! Hi Hi.
Joe
David Donaldson wrote:
Worse case, it would be no different then using a metal boom. It would detune it slightly so you'd see some distortion of pattern or impedance match issues. If it was me, I would not loose sleep over it. It might need some tweaking.
We find in cellular at 850 MHz that we have to use paint without metal when covering the fiberglass raydomes but painting the boom is nothing like that. But unless you going to put this behind a painted wall it's not an issue big issue.
Dave ______________________ WB7DRU Burnsville, MN
-----Original Message----- From: amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Rich Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2007 6:44 PM To: Amsat-Bb@Amsat. Org Subject: [amsat-bb] Paint and RF
Something just dawned on me.
I have been painting the wooden booms of my antenna
Does painting a boom affect it ?
Andrew Rich VK4TEC vk4tec@people.net.au http://www.tech-software.net
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