{"id":129,"date":"2011-09-13T20:20:07","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T20:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/?p=129"},"modified":"2011-09-13T20:20:08","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T20:20:08","slug":"cloud2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/?p=129","title":{"rendered":"Cloud2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cloud2 is my second attempt at a photographic flight. Basically, it&#8217;s similar to my first flight but with smaller and lighter GPS receiver, GPS antenna and flight computer. The container is much more compact than before, and is designed for much quicker assembly before launch.<\/p>\n<p>A piece of coax connects the antenna and ground plane to the transmitter inside. The smaller container doesn&#8217;t have space for the full ground plane, so I&#8217;m using a wire plane with the wires extending outside the box.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/?attachment_id=133\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-133\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-133\" title=\"P1030204\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/P1030204-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/P1030204-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/P1030204-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the main compartment, with holes for the camera, video, GPS tracker and batteries:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/?attachment_id=136\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-136\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-136\" title=\"P1030207\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/P1030207-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/P1030207-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/P1030207-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/?attachment_id=137\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-137\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-137\" title=\"P1030209\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/P1030209-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/P1030209-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/P1030209-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>and now with those things inserted:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/?attachment_id=138\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-138\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-138\" title=\"P1030210\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/P1030210-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/P1030210-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/P1030210-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Finally, here&#8217;s the container with the lid. That will soon have the GPS antenna, buzzer and other devices added,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/?attachment_id=139\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-139\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-139\" title=\"P1030211\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/P1030211-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/P1030211-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/P1030211-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cloud2 is my second attempt at a photographic flight. Basically, it&#8217;s similar to my first flight but with smaller and lighter GPS receiver, GPS antenna and flight computer. The container is much more compact than before, and is designed for much quicker assembly before launch. A piece of coax connects [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141,"href":"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions\/141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}