---------------------------------------------------------- RV-List Digest Archive --- Total Messages Posted Wed 11/26/08: 6 ---------------------------------------------------------- Today's Message Index: ---------------------- 0. 12:08 AM - Just A Few More Days... (Matt Dralle) 1. 06:03 AM - Re: Antenna Switchbox plans/know-how?Antenna Switchbox plans/know-how? (Charles Heathco) 2. 08:34 AM - RV series belly/wing tank/cargo pod (Smcm75@aol.com) 3. 08:54 AM - Holiday Tool Frustration (Paul Besing) 4. 03:49 PM - Re: Antenna Switchbox plans/know-how?Antenna Switchbox plans/know-how? (Bill Hood) 5. 05:47 PM - Re: Antenna Switchbox plans/know-how?Antenna Switchbox plans/know-how? (Carl Froehlich) ________________________________ Message 0 _____________________________________ Time: 12:08:56 AM PST US From: Matt Dralle Subject: RV-List: Just A Few More Days... Dear Listers, There are just a few more days left in this year's List Fund Raiser. There are some great gifts available when you make a qualifying Contribution and there's plenty still available. Don't forget that its *your* Contribution that keeps the computers running, the electricity turned on, and the computer room AC cooling! If you look forward to reading your List email each day, won't you please take a minute right now to make your personal Contribution? Credit Card or Paypal: http://www.matronics.com/contribution Personal Check: Matronics / Matt Dralle PO Box 347 Livermore, CA 94550 Thank you for your support! Matt Dralle ________________________________ Message 1 _____________________________________ Time: 06:03:12 AM PST US From: "Charles Heathco" Subject: Re: RV-List: Antenna Switchbox plans/know-how?Antenna Switchbox plans/know-how? This is how I have mine set up, takes a little fiddling, but its solid, just reach under panel, twist , pull off and put on my handheldt. I have considered bringing it out thru the panel, but havent do so. I have only had to use my handheld once, and that was with my cherokee 140 a while back. Charles H ________________________________ Message 2 _____________________________________ Time: 08:34:41 AM PST US From: Smcm75@aol.com Subject: RV-List: RV series belly/wing tank/cargo pod Gentleman and Ladies: I have developed the mold and plug for a fiberglass removable belly/wing tank or cargo pod. It is shaped like a WWII P-38 wing tank with a laminar flow cross section and is 52" long by 12" in diameter and holds 14 gals and is fabricated of either fiberglass or carbon fiber. I am soliciting interest to see where I go from here with production plans. This tank/pod with fit on practicall any experimental aircraft high or low wing. Please let me know your interest level. Regards, Scott Morrow **************Life should be easier. So should your homepage. Try the NEW AOL.com. ________________________________ Message 3 _____________________________________ Time: 08:54:21 AM PST US From: Paul Besing Subject: RV-List: Holiday Tool Frustration a little tool humor to get you through the holidays do not archive Paul Besing COMMON TOOLS DEFINED DRILL PRESS: A tall upright machine useful for suddenly snatching flat metal bar stock out of your hands so that it smacks you in the chest and flings your beer across the room, denting the freshly-painted vertical stabilizer which you had carefully set in the corner where nothing could get to it. WIRE WHEEL: Cleans paint off bolts and then throws them somewhere under the workbench with the speed of light. Also removes fingerprints and hard-earned calluses from fingers in about the time it takes you to say, "Oh sh*t..." SKILL SAW: A portable cutting tool used to make studs too short. PLIERS: Used to round off bolt heads. Sometimes used in the creation of blood-blisters. BELT SANDER: An electric sanding tool commonly used to convert minor touch-up jobs into major refinishing jobs. HACKSAW: One of a family of cutting tools built on the Ouija board principle. It transforms human energy into a crooked, unpredictable motion, and the more you attempt to influence its course, the more dismal your future becomes. VISE-GRIPS: Generally used after pliers to completely round off bolt heads. If nothing else is available, they can also be used to transfer intense welding heat to the palm of your hand. WELDING GLOVES: Heavy duty leather gloves used to prolong the conduction of intense welding heat to the palm of your hand. OXYACETYLENE TORCH: Used almost entirely for lighting various flammable objects in your shop on fire. Also handy for igniting the grease inside the wheel hub out of which you want to remove a bearing race. TABLE SAW: A large stationary power tool commonly used to launch wood projectiles for testing wall integrity. E-Z OUT BOLT AND STUD EXTRACTOR: A tool ten times harder than any known drill bit that snaps neatly off in bolt holes thereby ending any possible future use. BAND SAW: A large stationary power saw primarily used by most shops to cut good aluminium sheet into smaller pieces that more easily fit into the trash can after you cut on the inside of the line instead of the outside edge. TWO-TON ENGINE HOIST: A tool for testing the maximum tensile strength of everything you forgot to disconnect. CRAFTSMAN 1/2 x 24-INCH SCREWDRIVER: A very large pry bar that inexplicably has an accurately machined screwdriver tip on the end opposite the handle. PHILLIPS SCREWDRIVER: Normally used to stab the vacuum seals under lids or for opening old-style paper-and-tin oil cans and splashing oil on your shirt; but can also be used, as the name implies, to strip out Phillips screw heads. STRAIGHT SCREWDRIVER: A tool for opening paint cans. Sometimes used to convert common slotted screws into non-removable screws. PRY BAR: A tool used to crumple the metal surrounding that clip or bracket you needed to remove in order to replace a 50 cent part. HOSE CUTTER: A tool used to make hoses too short. HAMMER: Originally employed as a weapon of war, the hammer nowadays is used as a kind of divining rod to locate the most expensive parts adjacent the object we are trying to hit. D*MMIT TOOL: Any handy tool that you grab and throw across the garage while yelling 'D*MMIT!' at the top of your lungs. It is also, most often, the next tool that you will need. ________________________________ Message 4 _____________________________________ Time: 03:49:05 PM PST US From: "Bill Hood" Subject: Re: RV-List: Antenna Switchbox plans/know-how?Antenna Switchbox plans/know-how? I make no claims of expertise on this subject but, I came across this site and product and it would seem to overcome the problem of sending the signal from one comm unit to the other. Anyone care to comment? http://www.datapro.net/products/data-switch-manual-bnc.html bill hood rv-7 997Z hoodcom ________________________________ Message 5 _____________________________________ Time: 05:47:59 PM PST US From: "Carl Froehlich" Subject: RE: RV-List: Antenna Switchbox plans/know-how?Antenna Switchbox plans/know-how? This switch is for low power data, not for transmitting. Simple antenna switches are available. Some examples: http://www.universal-radio.com/CATALOG/switch/1864.html http://www.hamstick.com/cs201.htm Another way to go is to have a separate antenna for your backup radio. That way if you have an antenna problem you don't lose both radios. A wingtip antenna or a homebrew wire antennas in the cowl would work fine in this backup role. I flew my 8A for three years with a homebrew wingtip antenna, then added a belly bent whip antenna when I took the plane down for painting. The belly antenna works better, but I got along just fine with the wingtip one as well. The wing tip one is now wired to "COMM 2". Carl Froehlich RV8A (450 hrs) RV-10 (fuselage) From: owner-rv-list-server@matronics.com [mailto:owner-rv-list-server@matronics.com] On Behalf Of Bill Hood Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 6:54 PM Subject: Re: RV-List: Antenna Switchbox plans/know-how?Antenna Switchbox plans/know-how? I make no claims of expertise on this subject but, I came across this site and product and it would seem to overcome the problem of sending the signal from one comm unit to the other. 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