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Three to Get Ready
...a whole column, but with three of them we have a full article: GPS antennas, coaxial cable, and cable ties. GPS Antennas Let’s talk antennas in general for just a...
Aero ‘lectrics
Last month’s column showed off a nifty $20 transponder antenna. As I normally do to pique my students’ interest in the “real world,” I took the antenna in to show...
Aero ‘lectrics
...Such things as other metal structures around the ground antenna, foliage, other antennas and people themselves are going to further restrict range, so the idea is to get the antenna...
Aero ’lectrics
...over a wider range of input energy frequencies than a thin one. Enough music. Let’s talk antennas. What do we want of an antenna? What we really want is to...
Aero ‘lectrics
...wood halves together. Top view of antenna shows its airfoil shape. Com antenna with a coat of fiberglass. Com antenna covered with filler. The finished antenna, ready for mounting. Making...
Aero ‘lectrics
...which gives us an antenna cut down to 22.1 inches. Now we have to worry about “fatness” of the antenna elements. If you are making this antenna from #14 Romex...
Mounting On a Curve
...upgrade your box to WAAS and install a new antenna. The new antenna looked just like the old one, but many of us found out that it was far more...
Get Grounded
...often use an internal ground plane for external antennas; make sure it’s properly grounded as well. Don’t underestimate the importance of proper antenna grounding, and dealing with antenna farms is...
Aero ‘lectrics
...antenna. My take? The early commercial antennas didn’t have this top BB, and somebody put their eye out on the sharp end of the antenna and sued the antenna manufacturer....
Vertical, Vertical and so Very Practical
...and Romex house wiring for elements. The cost of making this antenna is 10 times that of the shirt-pocket antenna: $0.10 for the shirt antenna and almost (gasp) a dollar...
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The Back Yard Flyer
When Dick and Sharon Starks found that Sharon's Airdrome Aeroplanes Morane Saulnier L Parasol replica was TPd at Oshkosh, the search was on to find the culprits. Along the way, they also discovered an innovative new ultralight from Valley Engineering;
What You Don’t Need to Know Can Hurt You
Building an airplane should be mostly fun, sometimes challenging, and infinitely rewarding, but confidence...
