X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Sender: To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 21:41:59 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from elasmtp-masked.atl.sa.earthlink.net ([209.86.89.68] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.3.9) with ESMTP id 4465519 for lml@lancaironline.net; Mon, 13 Sep 2010 17:50:45 -0400 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=209.86.89.68; envelope-from=tthibaultsprint@earthlink.net DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=dk20050327; d=earthlink.net; b=HoA2NQ2pCc0rE+ZEKlJ83pBfwk8mVHcTewkaIt1oi65LPRYaIOEddBp6dpRRviuX; h=Message-ID:Date:From:Reply-To:To:Subject:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:X-Mailer:X-ELNK-Trace:X-Originating-IP; Received: from [209.86.224.26] (helo=mswamui-bichon.atl.sa.earthlink.net) by elasmtp-masked.atl.sa.earthlink.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1OvGuh-0000BN-3C for lml@lancaironline.net; Mon, 13 Sep 2010 17:50:11 -0400 Received: from 199.46.245.231 by webmail.earthlink.net with HTTP; Mon, 13 Sep 2010 17:50:10 -0400 X-Original-Message-ID: <1744985.1284414611134.JavaMail.root@mswamui-bichon.atl.sa.earthlink.net> X-Original-Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 14:50:10 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: Tom Thibault Reply-To: Tom Thibault X-Original-To: "lml@lancaironline.net" Subject: RE: Transponder Antenna Locations Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: EarthLink Zoo Mail 1.0 X-ELNK-Trace: de8bf13def69c2f69bce407a0563371ed780f4a490ca6956abb457f1b4332f522a301807bd05d85ed81153cf4a23b1b8350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 209.86.224.26 Luke, I mounted my rod and ball (with round aluminum ground plane) in the right wheel well on the inside wing skin just outboard of the tire. This is that funny shaped area of wing skin outboard of that extra partial rib. The ground plane bolts to three glass flanges that raise everything so that the ball is just inside the outer glass layers of the wing skin. The inner layers of skin are cut away so that the radiating element is as close to outside as possible. This way, when the gear is up, there is no nearby metal lower than the ball. Have never had a bad report from ATC. Tom Thibault