Ok, guys, thanks for the two or three postings with suggestions on the ELT antenna, but these postings referred to the ES, which has, of course, an e-glass empennage.  The Legacy and IV's, with their all-carbon bodies, require some other solution.  And no, you can't put the ELT antenna out in the e-glass wingtip, since it's supposed to be located as close to the ELT as possible, and definitely not in something likely to wander off during a crash, like a wing tip. 

    I'm thinking about a Jim Wier-style copper foil tape on the outside of the fuselage, then covered over and faired in with micro.  Maybe....

Jim,

 

Today, an ELT that transmits on 121.5 merely requires a simple comm antenna since the frequency is a comm frequency.  It is up to you to figure out what your vertical orientation will be when you crash (horizontal as a slide in or vertical when the engine has driven itself about 4 feet into the turf).  The question will be, what is the antenna required for the 406 MHz ELT you MUST have in 2009?

 

Think about it and then contact your local avionics shop.