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Dreaming of a BETTER PowerFLARM antenna



 
 
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Old October 31st 15, 01:13 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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Default Dreaming of a BETTER PowerFLARM antenna

I hold the PowerFLARM supplied center fed vertical dipole antenna in the same likeness to Apple providing a 6V HD "brick" lantern battery to power a new Apple watch. IMO, the CFVDA is distracting, cumbersome, and most unsightly. Surprisingly, USA users have accepted them and happily butcher glare shields and let them distract forward view in order to place them where they can be effective.

Lets get them off the glareshield. Double E antenna engineers come out, come out, wherever you are and design/market something BETTER. How about a bottom fed "whisker" antenna mounted to both sides of the canopy rail. They would parallel just behind the canopy window vent and bend to follow the curvature of the canopy. They would be held by a snap-in clip fixed to the canopy rail so they could be removed for canopy cleaning. No bulky connectors at the antenna...hardwired with the only connector at the "brick" end. "Whisker" antenna wire would be as small gauge as possible.

My OCD is so bad I'd pay twice the price of the typical center fed vertical dipole antenna to have these. Please step up YO!
 




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