The question cannot be answered. The question was asked if this particular
aircraft with some "aluminum paint", whatever the hell that is, would be
affected. The question cannot be answered.

If the question was, "Does the standard UV dope that we use on fabric
aircraft impede the use of internal antennas?" I could have answered that in
the last thirty years I haven't had one reported case of the dope affecting
the use of internal antennas. I could have reported that the work I did for
Bellanca twenty-five years ago where we used a double coat of UV dope and
still got outstanding antenna performance is documented.

The original question cannot be answered. However, your question as to
whether UV dope would make a good ground plane CAN be answered. No, it will
not. It makes an absolutely lousy ground plane, no ground plane at all to
tell the truth. The aluminum particles are way too microscopic and too
widely dispersed in the dope to be an effective solid sheet of metal.


Jim



Will the aluminum paint applied to a fabric plane make a good grond
plane
for an externally mounted antenna?