External Aerial mounting support  & Aerial construction,
 ariel mounting support is constructed from two pieces of Aluminium sheet.

                                                                                                   

A hole is drilled in to the base of the Aerial & a Resin
mixture carefully poured in, the one used in this model
was "Araldite"  a two part resin, a 6 mm bolt is now
carefully inserted in to the hole insuring that it is at
right angles to the base, the resin should  now be left to 
harden over night, the Aerial base can now be carefully screwed in
to the threaded hole on the base plate,

The depth of the drilled out hole should be 26 mm

Complete Aerial Dismantled

dimensions of upper part of areal ware based on photographs so some trial and error was involved to get it looking right.

i will add this picture to show off my roses

Aerial about to be screwed in to aerial base

Diamater of Aluminium tube 
11.97 mm

Diameter of fiber rod for aerial              Diameter of tip of spindle                   Diameter of cable 
10.01 mm.                                               9.89 mm.                                               6.94 mm. x 58 cm. 
                              

Two angle's of the Aerial base cast from an original

Aerial base allows variable angle's to be set.                   Carefully drill a 7mm hole to a depth of 38 mm  
                                                                                             insert cable & hold in place with Epoxy resin as                                                                                                          
                                                                                             before.

on a recent  " combat " mission a design flaw presented itself with this version of the aerial base, the bolt which was inserted in to the base was not of sufficient depth to fully strenghten the aerial base.

to further strengthen the spindle of the aerial base i now have inserted a bolt of approx  70 mm, same procedure as above for inserting bolt.  

I have designed a more robust Aerial base   the resin version was not robust enough to support the main Aerial if the Radio was being moved around