From: "Marvin Kaye" <marv@lancaironline.net>
Subject: Re: [LML] TCAD Antenna's on a Legacy
To: lml
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 10:00:11 -0400
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Posted for "F. Barry Knotts" <bknotts@buckeye-express.com>:

>Craig Berland wrote:
  
>I have been working on putting external antennas on my IV-P for 3 months.
  
  I'm building a IV-P and I'm starting to install stuff in the lower half of
the fuselage.  That brings up antenna placement and I'm pretty ignorant of
what I need to plan for.  I'm not planning on TCAD or a stormscope now, so
that will simplify things.  I like the idea of hidden antennas, but I like
good communications even better.  I've been discouraged about some of the
internal antennas...but mostly I've been confused about conflicting posts on
LML.  Here's my current take of my planned antenna needs:
  
  ELT - under glass portion of turtle deck
  TRANSPONDER - external antenna on belly (with ground plane)
  GS1 - external strip antenna at left wing root
  GS2 - external strip antenna at right wing root
  COM1 - belly whip (with ground plane)
  COM2 - belly whip (with ground plane)
  NAV1 - vertical stab
  NAV2 - ?
  GPS & satellite radio antennas - under the glass portion of the turtle deck.
  
  I'll have carbon fiber winglets, but I'm told NAV antennas are not very well
suited to the winglet location.
  
  I'd appreciate it if you (or others on the LML) could share what your plans
are for the above antennas.  Are there others I've overlooked?  What have you
discovered in your research into what is allowable and what is "best?"
  
  Thanks.
  
  Barry Knotts, LIV-P, Conti TSIO 550, Perrysburg (near Toledo), Ohio
  bknotts@earthlink.net <mailto:bknotts@earthlink.net>