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ELT Mounting for an ASW20-C
Hi,
I offered to help out a friend. He wants to install a 121.5mhz TSO'd ELT in his 20C. Looking for successful solutions for this specific ship in terms of: - Location - Make and model of ELT Not interest in a debate on the merits of PLBs, 406MHZ or whether the PW5 is in fact a sign of the coming Apocalypse. Rgds Erik Mann LS8-18 (P3) |
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ELT Mounting for an ASW20-C
Just helped a friend install one in his ASW-20B.
On the right side of the fuselage just below where the pushrods enter, there's a plywood shelf. An ACK (don't recall the model, but this one runs on 8 D cells) fits just fine. Routing the cable for the remote control panel is the most difficult part of the installation. Antenna is installed (without ground plane) by drilling a hole in the right forward part of the baggage shelf and arcs around the inside of the fuselage. I'll try to get some pictures of this and an ASW-19 we did last weekend and post them on my website next weekend. -Tom |
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ELT Mounting for an ASW20-C
Erik,
No recommendation is implied but the ELT Tom mentioned is an ACK EO-1, dim. 7.75x2.75x2.75 inches with a little careful prep.; it fits well on my 1985 20B and was use on Toms old ASW20B as well but you must set it aft & clear of the spoiler rod/arm! The Flap and Aileron control pushrods run over the top of this model installed ELT with some room to spare. As UH mentioned only a small ELT will fit in this location, I don't know if the height of the shelf varies slightly from ship to ship and or model to model, but it may so beware. The ELT mounting location Tim mentions, UH recommends and was used on one of our BFSS club members ASW19s is well out of harms way. Best regards, Rick Culbertson - 21 |
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ELT Mounting for an ASW20-C
Thanks to everyone. Looks like the results are pretty much unanimous.
Okay - now the fun begins... :-)) |
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ELT Mounting for an ASW20-C
Thanks to everyone. Looks like the results are pretty much unanimous.
Okay - now the fun begins... :-)) |
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ELT Mounting for an ASW20-C
I'll send you some images of how I installed one in an ASW20C last
year.ACK-E01 mounted below mixer on the fixture originally intended by Schleicher for a capacity bottle......reinforced .made a very tidy installation.though a real b-----h to install..... you'll like the installation..... I'd be happy to send these same images to anyone who has a 20 and would like to see how it was done Best Regards tim Please visit the Wings & Wheels website at: www.wingsandwheels.com "Papa3" wrote in message ups.com... Hi, I offered to help out a friend. He wants to install a 121.5mhz TSO'd ELT in his 20C. Looking for successful solutions for this specific ship in terms of: - Location - Make and model of ELT Not interest in a debate on the merits of PLBs, 406MHZ or whether the PW5 is in fact a sign of the coming Apocalypse. Rgds Erik Mann LS8-18 (P3) |
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ELT Mounting for an ASW20-C
Strongly suggest you follow Tims lead on this.
The obvious place is on the horizontal bulkhead below the push rods UNTIL you look at the motion of the pushrods which is not straight line. Only a small ELT will fit there. Learned the hard way. UH |
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ELT Mounting for an ASW20-C
Finally got the photos taken and uploaded online:
http://www.ash26e.com/scgi-bin/gallery/album02 First one is the installation in Rick's ASW-20B and the rest are the ASW-19. -Tom |
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ELT Mounting for an ASW20-C
Tom,
Thanks. Really slick (especially the one mounted in the capacity slot). Really like the idea of using the mounting doubler as the ground plane. The only downside is that I'm now ashamed of the setup in my LS8, so there's ANOTHER project for the last month or so before flying starts up again :-)) Erik Mann LS8-18 (P3) |
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ELT Mounting for an ASW20-C
5Z wrote:
Finally got the photos taken and uploaded online: http://www.ash26e.com/scgi-bin/gallery/album02 First one is the installation in Rick's ASW-20B and the rest are the ASW-19. Tom, did you measure the SWR of the ASW 19 antenna installation? 3 or less would be optimum. The ground plane looks quite small, but it would be easy to rivet on another piece of thin aluminum to increase it around the antenna mounting. Radial wires could be used, also, but might be harder to restrain. Still, a clean installation. -- Change "netto" to "net" to email me directly Eric Greenwell Washington State USA |
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