X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Sender: To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:10:11 -0500 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from imo-m27.mx.aol.com ([64.12.137.8] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2c1) with ESMTP id 2602864 for lml@lancaironline.net; Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:37:22 -0500 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=64.12.137.8; envelope-from=Sky2high@aol.com Received: from Sky2high@aol.com by imo-m27.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v38_r9.3.) id q.ced.23c70aa0 (14467) for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:36:32 -0500 (EST) From: Sky2high@aol.com X-Original-Message-ID: X-Original-Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:36:32 EST Subject: Re: [LML] SA-009 Marker Beacon Antenna Installation X-Original-To: lml@lancaironline.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="-----------------------------1197941792" X-Mailer: AOL 9.0 VR sub 5006 X-Spam-Flag: NO -------------------------------1197941792 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 12/17/2007 6:28:34 P.M. Central Standard Time, rwolf99@aol.com writes: Does anyone have a copy of the installation instructions for the Bob Archer SA-009 marker beacon antenna? When I opened the box today (which I first opened about 7 years ago) I could not find the instructions. Rob, Egads man, I built the ADF antenna into the fuselage ceiling in 1990 and, once I started flying for real in 1997, I only used the ADF for its AM radio reception (dead now, what with XM). The marker beacon is history. Any approach with a GPS as backup, noting every waypoint you could ever possibly want to know about, makes the rather inaccurate marker beacon a, uh, relic. If it is a long center tapped foil antenna, just glue it longwise in the bottom of the plane. Marker Beacon, my oh my. Grayhawk PS there is no approach altitude penalty if the beacon radio is inop. PPS I put in an audio feed to the sound system and the panel is marked "Audio Data Fortifier" so I didn't have to change the breaker label "ADF" when I pulled the radio. **************************************See AOL's top rated recipes (http://food.aol.com/top-rated-recipes?NCID=aoltop00030000000004) -------------------------------1197941792 Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

In a message dated 12/17/2007 6:28:34 P.M. Central Standard Time,=20 rwolf99@aol.com writes:

<= FONT=20 style=3D"BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=3DArial color=3D#000000 size= =3D2>Does=20 anyone have a copy of the installation instructions for the Bob Archer SA-= 009=20 marker beacon antenna? When I opened the box today (which I first op= ened=20 about 7 years ago) I could not find the=20 instructions.

Rob,

Egads man, I built the ADF antenna into the fuselage ceiling in 19= 90=20 and, once I started flying for real in 1997, I only used the ADF for its AM=20 radio reception (dead now, what with XM). The marker beacon is=20 history. Any approach with a GPS as backup, noting every waypoint= you=20 could ever possibly want to know about, makes the rather inaccurate marker=20 beacon a, uh, relic.

If it is a long center tapped foil antenna, just glue it longwise in th= e=20 bottom of the plane.

Marker Beacon, my oh my.

Grayhawk

PS there is no approach altitude penalty if the beacon radio=20= is=20 inop.

PPS I put in an audio feed to the sound system and the panel is marked=20 "Audio Data Fortifier" so I didn't have to change the breaker label=20 "ADF" when I pulled the radio.

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