Toy Robot Posted May 21, 2014 Report Share Posted May 21, 2014 Made a down and dirty strain relief for my Nomad's SMA right angle antenna. Cheap and easy for those of you who might like to protect your antenna from stress in the bag. Went searching the shop for something to make a relief out of and found this. I needed something that I could fasten to the Nomad without drilling holes in the body or permanently altering the machine, and this fit the bill when I saw it. Dremmel tooled the locking bolt shorter and came up with this first iteration. Tested it, but the bolt on the right slipped through the hole, so I re-trimmed another bolt and this time added a washer where the arrow points to prevent it from slipping through. Here is the second version that works well so far. Longer bolt so as to sit past the SMA antenna. Note that it is simply using the existing Nomad housing as an anchor point. Also note that pressure applied to this part will cause the part to press up against the body of the Nomad, as shown in this photo where the arrow points. That means even if it comes slightly loose with great pressure, it will press on the body of the Nomad instead of slipping through and failing to do its job. Side View: Top View: Hopefully in the long run this will prevent major stress on the antenna from my Kortwich bag. I very much hope the next version of Nomad has this antenna placement moved to a safer and more functional space, but until then this should do the trick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadoStefanov Posted May 21, 2014 Report Share Posted May 21, 2014 Just replace the stupid SMA with BNC and be done with it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bassmagnetic Posted May 22, 2014 Report Share Posted May 22, 2014 I also have a Kortwich bag.... When I first received it I noticed that the design of the bag; the thickness of where the Velcro is attached near the SMA antenna, puts quite a bit of pressure on the top of the antenna, especially combined with the way that the bag attaches the nomad inside; by holding it up in the bag, rather than pulling it down into the bag (like most other bags), if you get my drift... I returned it to Kortwich and had them make up another one to my spec which was to make this Velcro part near the antenna thinner and also changed the way the nomad was attached to the bag, being pulled down into the bag instead... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wandering Ear Posted May 24, 2014 Report Share Posted May 24, 2014 Just replace the stupid SMA with BNC and be done with it... What antenna do you use now that you switched to bnc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadoStefanov Posted May 24, 2014 Report Share Posted May 24, 2014 Bnc cable to 1w amp on my cart. BNC to sma adapter and 2.4ghz antenna in the bag... The bnc adapter rottates so no strain on the bnc connector. Also the bnc connector is very strong... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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