Re: Antennas

[david joyce <davidjoyce@beeb.net>]

Steve, I have a Bob Archer E shape com antenna inside the tail (and a Bob
Archer transponder arial in the fuselage) after having them strongly
recommended. The com arial seems to work very well on 1 mile ground testing
and air testing will hopefully follow shortly. David Joyce402
----- Original Message -----
From: Steve Hagar <hagargs@earthlink.net>
Subject:  Antennas


> Recently there has been some discussion on radios and some antenna issues
> had come up. I have been planing on going the copper tape route inside
> the tail fin. I have not heard bad things about this setup it works OK.
> However a friend who does composite repairs notes that the long term
> installation of these things suffer from the copper tape cracking. So he
> advises against their use. He does however swear by the Bob Archer
> antenna for composite use. Are there any users out there with an
> installation in a Europa who care to comment? Are your antennas
> installed on the side of the fuselage or in the tail fin? I am planning
> on making a VOR antenna out of the tape for the top of the fuselage to
> hook my hand held Icom Com/Nav walki talki into for secondary use. Has
> anyone done this? Steve HagarA143Mesa, AZ --- Steve Hagar---
> hagargs@earthlink.net