Steve,
Can you please drop me a quick note as to where you got your aerial? Was it
---From Spruce?
Reg
Tony Renshaw
P.S. Did you have any problems fitting it and would you mind telling me briefly
where/how you put it?
>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
>
Reg
Tony Renshaw
Builder No.236
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