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A pod for communications, research, navigation, and weather equipment, including antennas or sensors, has a skeleton formed by metal double channels and other metal structural elements, and is connected to a tower by rigid structural elements, including braces extending from below the pod to inner a

A pod for communications, research, navigation, and weather equipment, including antennas or sensors, has a skeleton formed by metal double channels and other metal structural elements, and is connected to a tower by rigid structural elements, including braces extending from below the pod to inner and outer beam rings of a floor skeleton. Fiberglass panels are connected to the floor and roof skeleton, and between the floor and roof skeletons, to form exterior and interior sides, defining an enclosure of sufficient integrity that it is water-tight, and may be air conditioned (heated and/or cooled). The exterior sides formed by the panels are contoured (e.g. curved about both horizontal and vertical axes), and the floor and roof panels are tapered, so as to provide an aerodynamic design of the pod. A dual set of railings is mounted on the roof with antennas connected to each set of railings, so as to provide maximum horizontal spacing of the antennas.

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A pod for use on a tower-like support having an external cross-sectional area, comprising: means defining a floor skeleton for said pod; means defining a roof skeleton for said pod; a first plurality of weather resistant panels connected to said floor and roof skeletons to form a floor and roof of s

A pod for use on a tower-like support having an external cross-sectional area, comprising: means defining a floor skeleton for said pod; means defining a roof skeleton for said pod; a first plurality of weather resistant panels connected to said floor and roof skeletons to form a floor and roof of said pod; a second plurality of weather resistant panels connected between said floor and roof skeletons to form exterior sides of said pod; a third plurality of weather resistant panels connected between said floor and roof skeletons to form interior sides of said pod, and spaced from the tower-like support; said means defining a floor skeleton comprising a first formed radius of structural metal beams providing an inside ring; a second formed radius of structural metal beams providing an outside ring; and a plurality of radially extending structural metal beams extending between said first and second formed radii and connected thereto; and means for supporting said floor and roof skeletons, consisting essentially of rigid structural metal elements extending between the tower-like support and said skeletons, and including a plurality of rigid structural metal elements connecting said inside ring to the tower-like support; said inside ring and said third plurality of panels defining an internal area much greater than that of the tower-like support cross-sectional area.