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VIXEN

Joined: 23 Nov 2009
Posts: 35

Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2012 11:31 am Post subject: Radio Antennas

Hello All

I could not find the answer by searching. Could someone tell me if I reconnected the wingtip VOR antennas (not used-removed the Nav/Com and replaced with ICOM A210) to a handheld emergency radio would it work? The coax is presently unused and surplus. OR any better ideas??

Thanks Don

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Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2012 12:08 pm Post subject: Radio Antennas

At 02:31 PM 3/11/2012, you wrote:

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Hello All

I could not find the answer by searching. Could someone tell me if I 

reconnected the wingtip VOR antennas (not used-removed the Nav/Com 

and replaced with ICOM A210) to a handheld emergency radio would it 

work? The coax is presently unused and surplus. OR any better ideas??


	


   Does your hand held have a VOR-LOC function that you'd

   like to exploit? The wingtip VOR antenna is best suited

   to horizontally polarized VOR/LOC signals. It will function

   on comm service but with degraded performance. Even so,

   the external VOR antenna may be a better COMM antenna than

   the rubber-duck used from within the cabin. There's no

   risks in giving it a try.



   You can go to plan-B if your experiments are disappointing.

   Consider this option. Bone up on antennas in general here



http://aeroelectric.com/articles/Antennas/Antennas_for_Aircraft.pdf

http://aeroelectric.com/articles/Antennas/Popular_Antenna_Lore.pdf



   Then consider hammering something like this together . . .



http://aeroelectric.com/articles/Antennas/DIY_Comm_Ant/DIY_Comm.html

   But if your wingtip VOR proves adequate to your needs, you're

   good to go.

   Bob . . .

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VIXEN

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Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2012 3:29 pm Post subject: Re: Radio Antennas

Thanks Bob. I would only be use the COM as emergency backup. Will give it a try.

Thanks again

Don

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