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General Discussion / Re: PA28, C172, C182 remote aerial install
« on: November 28, 2016, 11:26:57 pm »
Arcticash
For the SDR antenna you can modify the supplied one without any extension.
You will need a suction cup ,available here:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Suction-Cups-Any-Type-Wide-Range-Clear-Plastic-Rubber-Window-Suckers-/200790859945?var=500253280499
See 1st photo
Prise out the disc under the antenna base and get rid of the magnet. Drill disc to fit a small bracket as in photo 2. re-insert the disc and you can stick it on any window [vertically]. You can see I have shortened the detachable bit so that the piano wire is 50mm giving a total antenna length of 69mm.[now tuned to 1090mhz]
See here:
http://forum.pilotaware.com/index.php/topic,438.msg6096.html#msg6096
If you want to be more compact see my last post and the antenna on the right. Photo 3 is a mock up of this.
You can get extension leads of all sorts of length cheaply on ebay from UK sources. [Make sure SMA connectors are not RP -reversed polarity] You can mount the big antenna on a suction cup in the same way - just don't put them close together.
For the SDR antenna you can modify the supplied one without any extension.
You will need a suction cup ,available here:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Suction-Cups-Any-Type-Wide-Range-Clear-Plastic-Rubber-Window-Suckers-/200790859945?var=500253280499
See 1st photo
Prise out the disc under the antenna base and get rid of the magnet. Drill disc to fit a small bracket as in photo 2. re-insert the disc and you can stick it on any window [vertically]. You can see I have shortened the detachable bit so that the piano wire is 50mm giving a total antenna length of 69mm.[now tuned to 1090mhz]
See here:
http://forum.pilotaware.com/index.php/topic,438.msg6096.html#msg6096
If you want to be more compact see my last post and the antenna on the right. Photo 3 is a mock up of this.
You can get extension leads of all sorts of length cheaply on ebay from UK sources. [Make sure SMA connectors are not RP -reversed polarity] You can mount the big antenna on a suction cup in the same way - just don't put them close together.