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I am having (I think) antenna problems in my Helio Courier. The radio is a
Garmin 530. The antenna is a forward swept :"V" type mounted high on the vertical stabilizer. There is a splitter that spilts the output from this one antenna into two VOR signals and a single GS signal. The NAV flag on the HSI drops into view and then retracts many times on ILS and LOC frequencies. The GS seems fine and the HSI D-bar doesn't scallop. This same 530 works fine in the MU-2 and there are no flag issues in the Helio in GPS mode, so I don't think it is the radio. A few questions spring to mind: Some of the coax is RG-58U, would the newer RG 400U improve things? The splitter will supply two VOR recievers. Am I losing something even though I have only one reciever plugged in? Would a splitter with only one GS and one VOR output help any? (I doubt it)? I haven't been up on a ladder to look at the antenna but is the problem likely to be grounding and/or corrosion? I also have not followed the coax all the way from the antenna to the radio so there could be connectors along the way, how much do you lose for each connector? Mike MU-2 Helio Courier |
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