[amsat-bb] Re: New APRS Rocket Antenna concept needed

[Gordon JC Pearce]

On Tue, 2010-03-30 at 19:04 -0400, Robert Bruninga wrote:
> I need someone interested in adding quadrature 2 meter antennas
> to the outside of a 10" diameter sounding rocket by middle
> May...

There was an article in a recent copy of Practical Wireless about making
a DDRR antenna for 2m out of the ring around the top of a catering-size
coffee can.  It's not quadrature as such, but I wonder if you could fit
such a thing inside the body of the rocket looking down, with its ground
plane acting as the bulkhead for the nose cone?

Gordon MM0YEQ