[Cu-wireless] Pringles can durability test

David Young dyoung at ojctech.com
Thu Jun 27 16:50:23 CDT 2002


Wow. It smushed! =)

I am curious how Sascha's Pringles antennas are doing. Nobody's looked
inside the enclosures since we put them on the side of his house.

BTW, in this photo you can see the center of Peter's wireless
distribution. It is on the nearer, taller tower you can see in the
background:

http://comet.ncsa.uiuc.edu/wireless/pringles/tn/DSCN1143.JPG.html

Dave

On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 03:37:52PM -0500, Paul Wefel wrote:
> We mounted a stock Pringles can antenna outside about 2 months ago (during
> the "rainy season") and we just checked on it yesterday.  Here is what we
> found:
> 
> http://comet.ncsa.uiuc.edu/wireless/pringles/
> (The other pictures are just 360 degree pics from the roof)
> 
> Note the dangling LMR-400 that use to be attached to the N-connector which
> is no longer attached to the Pringles can.  Note to self:  Hot-Glue isn't
> the right choice for mounting N-connectors to Pringles cans.
> 
> Thought you guys might be interested.
> 
> -paul
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