is the nosecone at least 6 inches or 12 inches tall? is it balsa wood?
with some 0.125 od mini 50 ohm coax maybe you could bury a
monopole w short drooping radials or a dipole in the nosecone.
or put a thin dipole...
if you go with lora you can get 0.1 and 1 watt modules. your range may get better rather than suffer
because at 300 baud receiver sensitivity is an astounding 0.01 uv which is 20-24 db better than many
fsk radio...
do you have any way of ac line power monitoring for dropouts and glitches?
a) if you are having a line voltage drop out every 5-7 days and if your sig gen starts up with a nasty glitch
when ac is restored (as...