I have 30 years experience working with many different types of antennas from 100 KHz through 20 GHz and can answer some questions for you.
If you have a rag and tube aircraft, you can actually couple to the tubing in the frame and use it as a radiator itself but with a fuel tank and instruments in the airframe you could get cross coupling that you might not want. Yet, I believe it might be possible to couple to the tubing in the vertical stabilizer which should be far enough away to be far less coupling than you would have with a standard whip antenna mounted over the cockpit.
If you have antenna questions I'd be happy to give you my opinions.
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Originally Posted by Ernest Christley
I've been going over my Delta, trying to find a way to hide the
antennaes in what is basically a rag and tube aircraft. (some of the
rags are soaked in epoxy, and some of the tubes ain't round...but,
anyway) I was beginning to think it wasn't possible when I happened
across this guys website:
http://contrails.free.fr/instruments_ant_sonex.php
Looks like it has possibilities. Has anyone ever tried this.
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