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I have Bob Archer nav antennas in each wing tip.
So far it appears that they work at close range if the fuselage is not between the transmitter and the antenna.
The wing is carbon, the fuselage is carbon and the top of the winglet (I believe) is carbon.
My belief, unverified, is that you would have a usable nav installation if the winglet were all glass and you had an antenna switcher.
What I did is hook one nav antenna to each receiver.
I recommend wiring for the tail whisker in case you don't like the results.
Yes the com is in the tail. I also have a learjet antenna on the belly. The tail mounted one has less range but is less subject to obstruction from the fuselage in a turn.
there are certain airplane attitudes relative to the transmitter that don't work on my com 1 (belly mounted). If I were to do it over again I would put the com absolutely as high in the tail as I could get it and work real hard with measuring the com effectiveness before bonding it in. I'm sure others will post how to do that.
installation is everything.
http://home.hiwaay.net/~sbuc/journal/bob_archer.htm
----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob Logan" <Rob@Logan.com>
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Sent: Saturday, July 18, 2009 5:47 PM
Subject: [LML] 90’s vintage IV kit
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From: Dennis Ramsey [mailto:dsmramsey@windstream.net]
My name is Dennis Ramsey. I recently purchased an early 90’s vintage IV kit (from Todd Winkler who purchased it from Dick Studer). I have looked at numerous IV photos and I see several planes with no exposed NAV or Com antennae. In fact it looks like perhaps transponder and/or DME antennae seem to be hanging in the wind. The current Lancair recommendation for the NAV antennae is to use whisker antennae on the tail. I don’t recall seeing that on any planes. I was wondering what the antennae model number recommendations were of IV owners and where you hid them. I assume the com is in the vertical and the Nav’s in the wing tips, marker beacon in the wing root? GPS in the tail? I appreciate any help you can provide on your solution and how it is working for you. Thank you.
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