[Ground-station] Temperature testing resources for antennas?

[Drew Arnett]

Can you say OK by design per mechanical stability over temperature due
to known material properties?  Maybe cycle a few times without doing
electrical measurement at the same time to see if anything works
loose?  (accelerated lifetime test)

Running an entire anechoic over temperature is challenging.  Not the
first time I've heard the question.

Indoor or OAT range and something like a thermostream?

Drew
n7da

On Thu, Jul 2, 2020 at 5:06 PM Michelle Thompson
<mountain.michelle at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Anyone have access to any type of temperature chamber, anywhere to test some antennas?
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> For Gateway, temp range is expected to be -200 to +160 C.
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> I'd like to get any results, even if it's "only" industrial range, for the antennas that we currently have in hand for 5 GHz/10 GHz.
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> This would start to produce results that could be compared to later results, when the revisions of the designs for Gateway start getting turned into molecules. Showing improvement over temperature is super important and starting now greatly reduces risk.
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> -Michelle W5NYV
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