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Old June 1st 12, 12:47 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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Default PowerFLARM updates and installation notes

On Thursday, May 31, 2012 5:17:17 PM UTC-4, John Cochrane wrote:

You have to admit that the huge honking dipole antenna, coax cable,
and mount, right in the middle of where you want to look on the
glareshield amounts to Chinese torture. Or at least will not make for
any cool industrial design awards.

http://powerflarm.us/wp-content/uplo..._dipole_SH.jpg

I hope to heaven you guys can work out a prettier antenna and
installation.



Thanks to Dave and PowerFLARM US for the hard work at Perry and Mifflin to improve the PowerFLARM range issue. However I totally agree with John regarding the uglyness and size of the dipole antenna in the above URL. Forgive me for being reckless with my opinion but that installation sucks and is just not acceptable in the middle of one's vision field. My PowerFLARM order is "on hold" until a "no restricted vision" antenna is available. Please, please come up with something better.