engsol wrote in
:

Larry,
Do you think threaded nylon stand-offs with 1/4-20 nylon bolts
solve the problem?
Norm B



Not at all. The condensation problems stem from the dome being open to the
air and exposed to the sun in a high humidity environment. It works the
same as a nearly-empty gas tank sucking in cold, wet night air when the sun
sets to condense inside all night and run down the walls, then blow air out
the little rubber tit at the bottom of the radome when the sun comes up,
boiling off what water it can in the heat of the day to create its own
rainstorm inside the OPEN pot metal chassis to eat away at the electronics
until the sun sets, again, to repeat the process.

The problem is not the bottom mounting, the problem is the "gas tank
effect" creating saturated hot air inside the dome because it's cheap to
make an unsealed dome that doesn't have to withstand a few pounds of
pressure......