4/27/2021 0 Comments Diamond X30 Vs X50
Dont get too scientific (believe me, I know how difficult that can be).Since I didnt want to disturb the thin veneer of domestic tranquility by installing a garish monstrosity, I decided to alter my bright white Diamond X50 antenna with the most upscale dressing such that any style-consious wife would be sure to adore: leaf-pattern camouflage.The cans I grabbed were all Rust-oleum 2X Ultra-Cover Painters Touch with exotic color names like Canyon Black, Warm Caramel, Hunt Club Green, and Espresso.
For those of you who are aggravated just reading those names, likely due to your having grown up when men were men and we didnt go around painting things warm caramel, I grabbed four cans of matte spray paint in Black, Olive Drab, Light and Dark Brown. Id also like to point out that Ive been all around the world and Ive never seen a black canyon. Were only trying to affect how the antenna behaves in the visible light spectrum, so its probably best to leave materials out that could affect the radio spectrum. Indeed, the longer piece is a 1.25 OD eight-foot galvanized pole that Ill be using as a mast. Attached to the left side of this very nice pole is the mounting system for the Diamond antenna. That makes me wonder how long of a pole I could order without angering my carrier. I decided to mask off the cap and the radials because it just seemed wrong to paint those. This is not a fine-motor-skill activity, and theres nothing to be careful about here. The grass would grow out of its dye job and Id just mow it later anyway, but if your sensitive about such things throw down a tarp or lay it on your car or something. Actually, you probably shouldnt do that unless you have a matte green car that resembles the storied green of a hunt club. Also, painting in the grass means youll have grass stuck to your mast and grass-shaped outlines when you pull those off. Relax this is going up in the air where no one will see such details, and as youll soon see, were looking to have non-uniform patterns anyway. Looking up at some real-life trees I didnt really see much brown, but there were some branches so a light touch made sense. I also decided to pull some boxes out of the trash to pick the mast up off of the grass, which I probably should have done in the first place. Yes, as much as I said not to worry about it, pulling the grass off of the wet paint drove me crazy. Its also much easier to roll the mast over when its on boxes like this. The leaves should be right on the mast if theyre too far away, then the outline of the leaves wont be sharply defined. Remember, this camouflage is not necessarily about recreating the shape of the leaves, but rather breaking up the shape of the poles. This technique will break up the straight lines of the mast by using a psuedo-random distribution of colors found in the background. Since the background is trees and leaves, generic leaf shapes do the job just fine.
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