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Old July 12th 05, 12:13 AM
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There's an idea. If the antenna has a connector on both ends (radio as well
as antenna) I've sure got enough 50' cables that we could string one on a
temporary basis between radio and antenna just to eliminate that
possibility. While we are at it, we could patch in a Bird bidirectional
wattmeter and the fellow would at least know if he was putting juice into
the antenna. I'd be happy to lend him both, but NOT between now and
Oshkosh.

Jim




"Don Tuite" wrote in message
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On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 10:09:30 -0700, "RST Engineering"
wrote:

. . .THe point being, what is
"easily" replaceable? Most aircraft run the coax along the instrument
panel, up the door post, across the headliner, through the aft bulkhead,
along the fuselage formers until it comes to the antenna. Other than
tearing the airplane completely apart, it is fairly simple to replace.
Like
I said, go to all that work just to find that it isn't the problem? Not
me.


Looking at the antenna connector is a good idea. But for shotgun
troubleshooting, I wouldn't be averse to temporarily running a length
of coax from the back of the panel through the cabin to the antenna
just to get a data point..

Don