PowerFLARM antenna mounts

On Jul 5, 8:49*am, JohnDeRosa wrote:
Googling "PowerFlarm antenna" I see both two antenna (thin or thick)
and single antenna installations.
But I still don't get the 3-4" hole. *Expiring minds want to know.

And then this rather interesting picture of a PowerFlarm "Perfect"
antenna location as mentioned by Craggy Aero. *;-)

http://www.google.com/imgres?hl=en&b...=isch&tbnid=UD...

Thanks, John

Because the glareshield jettsons with the canopy, and the whole mess
has to stay with the glider, not the canopy. If you feed it through
two holes, you've just permanently attached the canopy to the glider.
This is a BIG no-no. If you can't jettison the canopy, you can't get
out of the glider. This has happened, with pda cables holding the
canopy to the glider.

I understand from Dave Nadler that Flarm has tried lots of the
interesting antenna suggestions from this forum, including the rather
obvious idea of bottom-fed and bottom-mounted dipoles, and found they
don't work well enough. Given that fact, roll your own without
extensive testing is probably not a good idea. (Dave: A list of "here
are the antennas we tried that don't work" might be useful here.) That
also suggests that we not hold our breaths for more aesthetically
pleasing antennas any time soon, but perhaps Dave would rather comment
on that possibility.

John Cochrane