X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Sender: To: lml Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 12:41:16 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from ms-smtp-03.texas.rr.com ([24.93.47.42] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1c.2) with ESMTP id 1312969 for lml@lancaironline.net; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 21:04:57 -0400 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=24.93.47.42; envelope-from=toucan@Satx.rr.com Received: from VAIO (cpe-24-243-1-103.satx.res.rr.com [24.243.1.103]) by ms-smtp-03.texas.rr.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k6O14Auq024183 for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 20:04:11 -0500 (CDT) X-Original-Message-ID: <004401c6aebd$0fe44d30$6701f318@VAIO> From: "James Cameron" X-Original-To: "Lancair Mailing List" Subject: Internal (ELT) antennas X-Original-Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 20:04:05 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0041_01C6AE93.268FED70" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2869 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2869 X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0041_01C6AE93.268FED70 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Ok, guys, thanks for the two or three postings with suggestions on the = ELT antenna, but these postings referred to the ES, which has, of = course, an e-glass empennage. The Legacy and IV's, with their = all-carbon bodies, require some other solution. And no, you can't put = the ELT antenna out in the e-glass wingtip, since it's supposed to be = located as close to the ELT as possible, and definitely not in something = likely to wander off during a crash, like a wing tip. =20 I'm thinking about a Jim Wier-style copper foil tape on the outside = of the fuselage, then covered over and faired in with micro. Maybe.... Jim Cameron ------=_NextPart_000_0041_01C6AE93.268FED70 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Ok, guys, thanks for the two or three postings with=20 suggestions on the ELT antenna, but these postings referred to the ES, = which=20 has, of course, an e-glass empennage.  The Legacy and IV's, with = their=20 all-carbon bodies, require some other solution.  And no, you can't=20 put the ELT antenna out in the e-glass wingtip, since it's = supposed to=20 be located as close to the ELT as possible, and definitely not in = something=20 likely to wander off during a crash, like a wing tip. =20
    I'm thinking about a Jim = Wier-style copper=20 foil tape on the outside of the fuselage, then covered over and = faired=20 in with micro.  Maybe....
 
Jim Cameron
 
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