Dick,

I'm also not flying yet, but my homemade-from-RST-parts NAV antenna will also go
on the top of tha baggage area, as recommended in the Lancair accessories
catalog.  Come to think of it, since my plane's still upside down from
completing the wings, I'll probably put it there this weekend.  (I'm also
planning to put the ELT antenna right behind the pilot's seat, and the COM2
antenna on the wall right behind the passenger seat.  Yeah, I know that's a lot
of reflectors within about a quarter wavelength of each other...)

These RST antennas seem to work pretty good.  I can pick up my 2 local VORs
(about 5 and 15 miles away) with my scanner, and the signal is strong enough so
that I can't squelch it off.

A while ago someone asked about an antenna for an AM/FM radio.  I plan on
multiplexing my NAV antenna.  The FM band is just below the VHF navaid band, and
I'm pretty sure automotive AM/FM radios also use 50 ohm cable (if not, I guess
I'll have to come up with some impedance-matching circuit or coil).  Also, I
read somewhere that FM stations broadcast a pretty significant horizontally
polarized signal (for home stereos) in addition to the vertically polarized
signal they broadcast for car radios.  If not, well, there's always the CD
player...

Gary