RE: Are they suggesting you might get power from one antenna feeding to the other and setting off the ELT or what?
Larry, They don't suggest anything. Another issue that I discovered after sending the message is that it requires a ground plane with a minimum diameter of 36 . If I go behind the seat, there is no flat place that will accommodate a 36 in diameter ground plane. The Little Beast had an ACK in it that was self contained. The antenna was about the same as this one, except that it was part of the ACK. Before I finished the plane, I had it stored in the trunk of my car along with all the other stuff that I hauled back and forth to the airport. Not thinking much about it, I never thought to remove the battery. Well, one night at about 2am, the CAP were knocking on my door because the aircraft that had been sent out of Shaw AFB had determined that the plane (the one my ELT was supposed to be in) had crashed in my driveway. I thought that I was in serious trouble, but they just cautioned me and took it as an exercise. Did I ever feel like the luckiest idiot on the planet. The point is, that thing worked from the trunk of my car and did not have any such antenna set up as this thing is asking for. It would be nice to know the requirements before buying stuff like this. "There is a time for building and a time for GOING TO THE GATHERING, and the time for building has long since expired." See you in Mt. Vernon - 2004 - KR Gathering http://KRGathering.org See N64KR at http://KR-Builder.org - Then click on the pics Daniel R. Heath - Columbia, SC
