Hi Chris
Merry Christmas to you too.
Yes this is the intention.
We have had a huge response on the pilotawarehardware shop, much more than we had anticipated.
We are now in the process of procuring the ancilliary stock items.
The problem we have here, is there are a few alternate configurations, and we had not really specified the types of configurations people would require to give us an idea of stock levels.
So the two sets of alternates are the antenna type, and the GPS type.
The antenna we intend to offer a 1/4 wave monopole, this is suitable for mounting on a ground plane which needs to be at least 18cm diameter, or even better, a metal airframe. A 3m coax can be provided for remote mounting from the unit.
Alternately, a 1/2 wave dipole, similar to those provided with the ARF, these do not require a ground plane, and can be mounted in the cockpit.
The best results we had when measured from the ground, were for the monopole mounted remotely, with better visibility of the sky. Although in air to air we got excellent results with both configurations.
For the USB GPS, again we have 2 options, the g-blox dongle, and g-blox mouse, the only difference, the mouse is on the end of a 1.5m cable, so can be easily placed for good visibility remote from the main unit.
So I think we intend to stock up with both options in the initial batch, then see the configurations people choose, then adjust follow up orders accordingly
Thx
Lee