("RST Engineering" wrote)
You could have saved yourself half the price of the "commercially
available antenna base" by using a bulkhead BNC female connector, mounting
it to the same piece of aluminum and feeding one side with connector/coax
to the radio and the other side with a BNC connector on the other side
with a brass brazing rod of your choice in diameter for the radiating rod.


(John Smith wrote)
"A length of stainless steel rod cut to mid-frequency length was inserted to
serve as the antenna. This was on a 7AC. The antenna coax entered the cabin
at the leading edge/canopy junction."


1. With a standard handheld, what would the average length be (approx) for
the rod(s)?

2. Should the rod be insulated, at any contact points within the wing? If
yes, with what?

4. If no, does the rod cantilever away from the BNC connector, without ever
touching anything else inside the wing?

5. Does the length of the coax (running to the radio) matter,
significantly?

6. Is there a benefit to having one wing 'tuned' to receive and the other
wing 'tuned' for transmitting? g


Montblack