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Subject: | Antenna Question |
Building an RV-7a with fiberglass wingtips. Had planned to use one Bob Archer
VOR antenna (AeroElectric connection chapter 13) in each wingtip. For reasons
I won't get into, I'm going to use a uAvionics tailBeaconX transponder (250 W).
For those that don't know, it has an integral antenna.
It's meant to replace the tail light, but again for reasons I won't get into, I'm
going to put it in one of the wingtips.
1) Would I be better to put the 2 Bob Archer antennas in the other wingtip?
2) Put the transponder and one Bob Archer antenna in the same wingtip?
3) Neither?
If #2, although the frequency of the xponder is 10x the freq of the VOR, the 2
antennas would only be inches apart. Seems like a bad idea to have a 250 watt
transmitter that close to any antenna regardless of the frequency, but I defer
to those who know. I'm sure the two Bobs have forgotten more than I'll ever
know about antennas.
Thanks.
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Clear Skies,
Tom Costanza
-- in year 17 of a 3 year project
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