From: CavittP@aol.com
Message-ID: <0.869e6eea.2598569b@aol.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 00:43:55 EST
Subject:  Com Radio Antenna Diplexer
To: lancair.list@olsusa.com
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I'm wondering why anyone would use a com radio antenna diplexer in the first 
place.  There's plenty of room in the tail for 2 com radio antennas (one 
toward the front of the vertical and the other in the rudder) and, on the 
2-place airplanes you can put one in the vertical and one in the tail cone.  
Use of a diplexer limits one's flexibility with communications.  If the 
diplexer should fail in just the right way, maybe you wouldn't have any 
communications at all.  Of course the cost of a second antenna is less 
expensive than a diplexer in the first place.  With only one antenna what 
would you want with an audio panel either?

Pete Cavitt - N320PL
619-283-7473
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