Original Posted By: helspersew(at)aol.com
How thin can a ground plane be? Does mass make a difference, or just size, dimensions and orientation? Maybe you could work it into the horizontal stab somehow?I'm supremely ignorant on this subject, so I'm free to throw out goofy ideas :)Kip GardnerOn Mar 23, 2012, at 8:54 AM, Douwe Blumberg wrote:> First off, thanks all for the radio head help. I think we=92re > narrowing down on a solution. I sure like the idea of a fin > location because it gets it away from most of the hunks of metal > (except for the brace wires) but not sure how to do a ground plane > back there. Second choice is behind my cockpit but I have an > aluminum baggage compartment there and am afraid between that and > the control cables (and the cables from my shoulder harness) there > will be too much interference. Still thinking=85>> Andrew, your symptoms remind me of a time I ran an engine and it did > the same thing. Turned out my fuel supply to the carb was bad and > it would only run the bowl down then quit. Then while I tinkered, > the bowl would slowly refill and it would run again=85 then quit.>> Douwe>>________________________________________________________________________________Subject: Pietenpol-List: New source for spoked wheels