You could have saved yourself half the price of the "commercially available
antenna base" by using a bulkhead BNC female connector, mounting it to the
same piece of aluminum and feeding one side with connector/coax to the radio
and the other side with a BNC connector on the other side with a brass
brazing rod of your choice in diameter for the radiating rod.

Would this be a good Kitplanes column? I know I've made passing reference
to this lashup before, but perhaps not in enough detail.

Jim



"Montblack" wrote in message
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("john smith" wrote)
I purchased a commerially available antenna base and had it mounted to a
piece of the aluminum where the left wing meets the fuselage. A doubler
plate was riveted to provide extra strength. A length of stainless steel
rod cut to mid-frequency length was inserted to serve as the antenna. This
was on a 7AC. The antenna coax entered the cabin at the leading
edge/canopy junction.


Did this arrangement have some strong points and some weak points -
reception wise?

How were the results, overall?


Montblack