KR> ELT antenna location

2010-09-17 Thread Glenn Martin
PETER KAREN GAUTHIER wrote: > How important is the 5' separation? > > Thanks, > > Pete Gauthier > KR builder > Woodburn, OR > If the ELT goes off..that comm antenna will be pretty much the last worry you have. Go with the 3 feet or the best you can do. -- Glenn Martin (N5PQ) Martek Mississip

KR> ELT antenna location

2010-09-17 Thread PETER KAREN GAUTHIER
I just acquired an ACK model E-01 ELT. I went with this because it is the most inexpensive way to be legal, I'll upgrade when I begin to do some serious flying out of the valley. My problem is the installation instructions say to mount the antenna 1.6 meters (5') from the comm antenna. My com

KR> ELT Antenna Location

2008-10-12 Thread larry flesner
>My ELT ( AmeriKing ) says that the antenna must be located 3 feet from any >vertically polarized communication antenna. Where is there 3 feet available >between where a com could be installed and where this (*&)(*& can be >installed? >Daniel R. Heath +++

KR> ELT Antenna Location

2008-10-12 Thread Mark Langford
I was reading my Terra TX-760D manual today, and it stated an absolute minimum of 21 inches to any other vertical antenna. Fortunately my rudder cables miss it by at least a half inch, so I should be safe there! Maybe that's where the squealing in my headset is coming from every time I key the mi

KR> ELT Antenna Location

2008-10-12 Thread Dan Heath
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 se

KR> ELT Antenna Location

2008-10-12 Thread Dan Heath
Mark, That is cool, and it only talks about COM freq range antenna. However, if wishes were fishes, my antenna would be back there also. "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 Gath

KR> ELT Antenna Location

2008-10-12 Thread Stephen Jacobs
no flat place that will accommodate a 36 in diameter ground plane It would be nice to know the requirements before buying stuff like this. I am not sure that the ground plain needs to be perfectly flat - I have seen some that have consisted of 3/4" wide brass or copper strip

KR> ELT Antenna Location

2008-10-12 Thread Mark Langford
> On a few occasions now we have (as fellow pilots) used the ELT signal to > find a missing airplane by flying through the antenna radiation "cone" > in different directions and using the strongest signal on each pass as > the centre. I'm no antenna expert, but I thought the pattern from that sort

KR> ELT Antenna Location

2008-10-12 Thread Mark Jones
-Original Message- From: Dan Heath [mailto:da...@alltel.net] 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.

KR> ELT Antenna Location

2008-10-12 Thread Stephen Jacobs
I thought the pattern from that sort of antenna was more of a doughnut shape, which means directly above the antenna would be one of the weakest places in the pattern ++ Correct = the propagation pattern (in section) for a whip antenna is like a squashed heart shape with the lobes

KR> ELT Antenna Location

2008-10-12 Thread jehayw...@aol.com
In a message dated 7/14/04 7:12:08 PM Mountain Daylight Time, da...@alltel.net writes: << I have a problem that I would suppose that most of you will or do have now. My ELT ( AmeriKing ) says that the antenna must be located 3 feet from any vertically polarized communication antenna. Where i

KR> ELT Antenna Location

2008-10-12 Thread Dan Heath
My com is on top, about where Marty's is, and the ground plane for that is stuck to the inside of the turtle deck. We are using copper tape. I may do what you did and put a ground plane of copper tape on top of the longeron cross pieces, and put a piece of skin plywood on first to give something to

KR> ELT Antenna Location

2008-10-12 Thread Dan Heath
I have a problem that I would suppose that most of you will or do have now. My ELT ( AmeriKing ) says that the antenna must be located 3 feet from any vertically polarized communication antenna. Where is there 3 feet available between where a com could be installed and where this (*&)(*& can be i

KR> ELT Antenna Location

2008-10-12 Thread Mark Langford
Dan Heath wrote: > I have a problem that I would suppose that most of you will or do have now. > My ELT ( AmeriKing ) says that the antenna must be located 3 feet from any > vertically polarized communication antenna. Where is there 3 feet available > between where a com could be installed and wh