Fred, Coming late into this thread, for what it is worth,
I have two GPS aerials in the panel overhead between the
doors - one for a Garmin 496 and the other for the built
in GPS in my EFIS. I have a very thin plywood panel
filling that gap and they are fixed to the panel, which
also houses the headset sockets. The aerial wires run one
up each side of the windscreen. They have worked
faultlessly for 12 years and unlike most of my friends I
have never run out of GPS signal at any time.
I would strongly endorse the warning of not having
anything on top of the panel that will give reflections.
Regards, David Joyce, G-XSDJ
Bud Yerly <budyerly@msn.com> wrote:
>Fred
> I think my wordy answers take too much computer space.
>
> One of the reasons for using a metal inverted hat is to
>limit direct RF from the radio stack. Orient it
>laterally. Its worked so far.
>
> Bud
>
> Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID
>
>Fred Klein <fklein@orcasonline.com> wrote:
>
> Budthank you for your comprehensive reply to my
>questionsI keep a special file of your thorough and
>detailed postsespecially helpful to a novice since my
>bird is tending towards having a high degree of novelty.
>
> How I value this forum,
>
>Fred
>
> On Jun 2, 2014, at 10:43 AM, Bud Yerly
><budyerly@msn.com> wrote:
>
>> Have mounted Garmin, Dynon, Grand Rapids GPS antennas
>>inside the panel.
>>
>> Some Rules:
>
>> Never had any problems with these simple rules.
>>
>
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