Removing old antennas

If the Apollo antenna looks like a comm antenna, then it's probably an
Apollo loran antenna. A GPS antenna would look like a thin disk. One
thing you might want to consider is keeping one of the extra comm antennas
and use it for your handheld comm. In an emergency, it would work a lot
better than the rubber duck. I keep meaning to install the extra comm
antenna I bought years ago, for that purpose.

Good ideas. And you're right -- the Apollo is probably a loran antenna.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

In article Y3l6c.35073$1p.540919@attbi_s54,
Jay Honeck wrote:

Good ideas. And you're right -- the Apollo is probably a loran antenna.

They make a GPS antenna with the same footprint for LORAN-GPS upgrades.
If you need a GPS antenna it's nicer than a patch, and the same price as
the regular ones (ie shockingly expensive).

--
Ben Jackson

http://www.ben.com/

"the whole nine yards"
Jay. Do you know where that aviation saying came from?

Karl

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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My question: What are the antennas?

A previous owner (2 owners ago, a guy I know well) had installed a
complete
glass panel -- one of the first anyone had seen.

Well, okay, it wasn't a "complete" glass panel, like the new Garmin G1000,
but it was as close as you could get five years ago. Multi-function
display, up-linked weather, the whole nine yards.

When he bought his awesome Comanche 400, he took all those goodies with
him... :-(

In typical aviation fashion, the shop disconnected the wires and left the
antennas.

So, on top I've got an Apollo antenna (GPS, I presume), and two Com
antennas
that appear to go no where. On the bottom I've got several unidentified
antennas that can probably go, too.

I'll have to dig around some more at the annual to see what goes where.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

kage wrote:

"the whole nine yards"
Jay. Do you know where that aviation saying came from?

Supposedly the ammo belt for a WWI machine gun was this long. So if you fired
at a target until you ran out of ammo, you gave it the whole nine yards.

George Patterson
Battle, n; A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would
not yield to the tongue.

On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 17:35:51 GMT, "G.R. Patterson III"
wrote:



kage wrote:

"the whole nine yards"
Jay. Do you know where that aviation saying came from?

Supposedly the ammo belt for a WWI machine gun was this long. So if you fired
at a target until you ran out of ammo, you gave it the whole nine yards.

Well...that's *one* explanation. There's a whole lot more....

http://www.quinion.com/words/articles/nineyards.htm

Ron Wanttaja

"kage" writes:

"the whole nine yards"
Jay. Do you know where that aviation saying came from?


There are lots of bogus explanations but...

{cement truck load, machine gun belt, & others...}


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Jay Honeck wrote:

In typical aviation fashion, the shop disconnected the wires and left the
antennas.

Jay, what you really want to do is find out what goodies he had in there, buy
all of them, and hook the antennae back up. :-)

George Patterson
Battle, n; A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would
not yield to the tongue.

Jay, what you really want to do is find out what goodies he had in there,
buy
all of them, and hook the antennae back up. :-)

And since they are not on the cutting edge of 1998 technology, I could
probably buy them for a song!

Nah -- we're really quite happy with our plain-Jane IFR panel the way it is.
Our AvMap GPS provides so much functionality that we'd have to spend $20K
more just to get the same features in panel-mounted stuff.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message news:iI76c.32458$_w.542610@attbi_s53...
Is it worth the bother?

Well, when you pick up some ice they won't make such a racket flapping
in the breeze.

Bob Miller
'65 Mooney

Removing the stuff saves space, weight, gives a little speed, and best of
all can save you avionic tech time (and your money) when they need to chase
down something.

jerry

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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Is it worth the bother?

We're coming up on our annual inspection in May, and there are at least
four
antennas on our bird that do nothing. I'll bet there's a few feet of
cable
going to each one, too.

Does removing an antenna net you any extra speed, or is it mainly a weight
reduction thing?
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"