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Eating the Elephant—Part 3
...yourself boxed into a corner. You can’t close out the floor until you run the wires for the antennas—but you can’t mount the antenna until you know if you’re going...
Putting Off the Tailwheel Spring Repair
...a tailwheel overhaul and some navel-gazing regarding the Omni antenna co-mounted with the tail spring, the costs are adding up. I’ve always tried to improve any part of the airplane...
The Iceman Cometh
...because of our low altitude or antenna ice or both, it was just static. I then glanced back at the instrument panel and noticed that we had dipped back below...
Dummy Loads
...belly antennas installed—but you just KNOW that you’re itching to hit that “push to talk” switch to make sure it works. You have also heard horror stories of blowing up...
Red, Round and Gorgeous
...antenna functioning. Left: What a pleasant place to fly the day away. Rick reports absolutely minimal wind bother behind either windshield. Right: A fiberglass headrest allows internal antennas along with...
Archive: May 2014
...own ground plane antenna for the hangar or radio shack. “This is by far the best ground plane aircraft band antenna I’ve ever seen. Perhaps the best ground plane antenna...
Going Glass
...I want it behind the panel with a relatively thick RG-400 coax cable heading off to the antenna under the copilot seat? Or would I put the unit next to...
Second Chance Six
...and various harnesses. I also got a RAMI AV-74 transponder/ADS-B blade-type antenna. The autopilot was to be added later on because I was quickly becoming broke. A few weeks after...
Going Glass
...for SkyView but I learned that the SV-GPS-250 receiver/antenna module has a much faster refresh rate—5 Hz rather than the more common 1 Hz. In early flights, it was clear...
Franklin vs. Edison et al. and Marconi
...(I use the “G” because nine times out of 10, I get Guglielmo wrong). Think about it…a metal airplane, a wire antenna ground plane, an automobile chassis, a metal radio...