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Hi Colin:

I read with interest your letter to the LNN on the subject of antennas.

Up here in Canada we still need the ADF as many of our smaller centres only
have NDB's.

I am at the stage of installing antennas before close up.  I am using the
wings as a fuel tank all the way through and will therefore not be putting
the nav antennas in the wings.  I also have a carbon fibre horizontal
stabilizer so that again limits me.  I have chosen to use Bob Archer
antennas and the NAV antenna will go in the roof of the baggage
compartment.  This leaves a space behind it for an ADF antenna.  I read
your letter and understand that you had problems to get the needle to point
the correct way, your solution was  "Eventually I came to accept the
inevitable .  We just rolled over, told the truth to the
electronics..........."  Could you please explain to me how you did this?
The ADFantenna is now in the roof of the baggage compartment, presumably
facing downwards with the groundplane glued to the roof of the baggage
compartment.  Is the  configuration the same as if it was mounted on the
lower skin of a metal airplane?

Do you have any comments on the distance I should be from the COM antenna?

Regards

Ian Crowe.
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