X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Sender: To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:47:14 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from web51506.mail.re2.yahoo.com ([206.190.38.198] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2.8) with SMTP id 3205368 for lml@lancaironline.net; Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:10:52 -0400 Received: (qmail 11884 invoked by uid 60001); 9 Oct 2008 00:10:52 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=Xrz8gcrOQBfaBbaM3t/bwMXt5Yprcs3UIsStNvPpDb0EHSvueqSQO8j0NTlZAHLZLFfrKh70731RsVMKLpyKrfEV71YOPIdF5/Vz69ivrIgL1peyY94Uey2Bidza+jcemEzpgy25F+Pxhdw0T0k1Z3uLQtPa67po/OuYSsLGtq8=; X-YMail-OSG: k0E.mJwVM1lEahjjX9IzRuArmck0_HUZU_mDyb.R3tZAxDo3drxb8lf61m5UXhPOIf10s89RBKF_yTjehLu79Vvs6axLJfseSx3gEj9DV_U.TqW.PcaWxhinvodF21aWHwEDDfQsWgxbNgRWcn6tL1E- Received: from [67.162.178.162] by web51506.mail.re2.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:10:52 PDT X-Mailer: YahooMailRC/1096.40 YahooMailWebService/0.7.218.2 X-Original-Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 17:10:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom McNerney Subject: Trandponder Problems X-Original-To: Lancair Mailing List MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Original-Message-ID: <804414.11529.qm@web51506.mail.re2.yahoo.com> I had the same issue in SOCAL during my initial training.=A0=A0 I found tha= t if I was pointed at the station they would loose me,=A0 but if I turned a= s little as 10 degrees away from the station they would pick it up again.= =A0 I'm guessing the way the antenna was mounted it couldn't get signal aro= und parts of the plane, but off center it could.=A0 Just an idea.=0A=0A"Als= o,=A0 having intermittent transponder problem.=A0 Seems to always have prob= lems with SOCAL in LA basin,=A0 but other radar environments=A0sometimes=A0= have a problem sometimes not.=A0 Go figure.=A0 I have reply light flashing = but they can't see me - other times no reply light.=A0 Tried cycling etc."= =0A=0ATom McNerney=0AN54SG