On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:38:46 -0700, Jeff Liebermann
wrote:

On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:22:33 -0700, Jim Lux
wrote:

Jeff Liebermann wrote:
To bring things back to ham radio antennas, we had a Motorola
Breakie-Backie "portable" radio in the float on 2 meters.

It's a challenge to put antennas on floats and meet the TORC
requirements for only vegetable matter to be exposed. We got a special
dispensation for our 23cm ATV from the JPL float.

http://www.luxfamily.com/events/rose2005/roseatv.htm

Things sure have changed in 40 years.

Nicely done float. How tall is it? We had stability problems with
some of the floats. The parade route was fine, but entering Victory
Park at the end was tricky. One year, some of the floats almost
tipped over.

Also, my fault tolerant memory has failed me once again. The snoozing
photo of me is from of the 1970 float:
http://cpprosefloat.org/site/plugins/autogallery/autogallery.php?show=7.Past%20Floats%2F350.1970.jp g
The float consisted of 3 islands, connected with big long throw
hydraulic rams. The float could be contracted to about 35 ft or
extended to 59.99999 ft. The fun part was turning the Orange Grove to
Colorado corner in front of the cameras, while simultaneously
extending the float. Some officials didn't know which way the float
was going to go and ran for cover.

The sheared hinge bolts were from the 1971 float:
http://cpprosefloat.org/site/plugins/autogallery/autogallery.php?show=7.Past%20Floats%2F340.1971.jp g
It also features an elephant toy, with targeting controls for a small
water pump and nozzle in the trunk. That was banned the following
year.

70 & 71? Maybe you met Dave Steinfeld of TORRA . I worked with him
for some years back in the day (80's).