REFLECTOR: ELT

[Scott Derrick]

36" !!!

My ground plane is 9 inches. I guess its a 1/4 wave ground plane.

I've never been impressed with ELT's and don't really care if it works 
or not..

Scott

Al Gietzen wrote:
>
> During construction of my plane I never gave much thought to the ELT 
> installation; thinking that I would eventually mount it somewhere 
> behind the vanity bulkhead. No wires to pull – no big deal.
>
> I bought an Ameri-King AK450 a few months ago, and put it aside. I 
> opened it today to do the installation. It has a Remote Unit that 
> should be mounted in the panel, and a cable that goes to the 
> transmitter unit. Oops; I should have dealt with this long ago before 
> my panel was nicely painted and completed, and the wire bundles were 
> covered by the nice upholstery panels. And it needs to be installed in 
> a specific orientation on major structure. Hum-m-m; those places are 
> pretty well used up.
>
> One big concern – the instructions say that the antenna (if mounted in 
> a non-metallic airplane) needs a ground plane that is a minimum of 36” 
> in diameter! How can that be achieved?
>
> I’m sure once I get over “Installation Shock” I can deal with this, 
> but suggestions will be appreciated.
>
> I understand this can be put off until after completion of the 40 hour 
> test program, but it probably won’t be any easier then.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Al
>
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