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Home of the Spodplane
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Date: 11-4-2018
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Number of Hours: 2.00
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Manual Reference: 20-02
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Brief Description: Winglet Antenna installation
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Can't find any actual reason not to, so use a 1/2" router bit to make a shallow trench to put the antenna in, and a 1/4" bit in the dremel router to make the coax channel, using a bit of wood to guide the tool. When I look at the result I realise I am an idiot, (yet again), and note that fig.1 shows the antenna continuing onto the 1" tip, and I haven't done this. I also haven't checked if the instructions for this bit are better indicated elsewhere, mine date from a 1981 Sport Aviation article! Stop work and go and play with slot cars...
After reading some more realise I had left too big a gap between the dipoles, Jim Weir's instructions say the gap should be less than 10mm! Remark everything, cut a new coax channel, and hollow for the torroids, (from Jaycar aerospace).
Stripped the end of the RG58/AU coax, (I know it is fashionable to use RG400, but NO!), and glued on the torroids to make it easier to heatshrink them in place.
Carefully cut 2 x 20.3" strips of 3/8" copper tape and stuck them on the foam.
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Cutting coax channel
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Cutting antenna trench
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Cutting a transition from coax channel to torroid cavity
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