Mailing List lml@lancaironline.net Message #45410
From: <Sky2high@aol.com>
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Subject: Re: [LML] SA-009 Marker Beacon Antenna Installation
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:10:11 -0500
To: <lml@lancaironline.net>
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.



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