On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 07:41:15 -0700, "RST Engineering"
wrote:

No, that wasn't the point. You CAN'T bond (as in glued to) a ground plane
type of transponder antenna to the plastic fuselage. If you were so ...
ummm ... thoughtless as to try and bond a dipole type antenna for
transponder use half your transponder power gets radiated into outer space.
Where, as I understand it, no ATC facilities yet exist.

Jim



sounds like a good place to use Wier's foil antenna setup :-)