Re: Digest Number 1292
Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 11:52 am
'GPS antennas need to be on the top of the airplane to receive
satellite signals. i would suggest calling Jeff Powell 214-649-8342.
He is an A&P out of Midlothian,TX and will come to you airplane
location. He is also a Garmin Dealer. Tell him I recommended him. I
get no cut.
Tom woodward
PT-19
satellite signals. i would suggest calling Jeff Powell 214-649-8342.
He is an A&P out of Midlothian,TX and will come to you airplane
location. He is also a Garmin Dealer. Tell him I recommended him. I
get no cut.
Tom woodward
PT-19
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>
> I'm installing a Garmin 300 GPS / Comm in my airplane and was
> wondering if anyone had experience with this installation in an F-24R
> and if so, where they put the comm antenna and what kind of luck they
> had with their installation. The avionics shop says "DO NOT put the
> antenna between the gear legs". Okay, that leaves a lot of other
> places for it. One guy says put it on the belly quite a ways aft on
> the fuselage, another says put it directly over the cockpit in the
> top center of the fuselage, another says use the wing root fairing as
> a mounting point (grounding plane), and still another says I should
> hide the antenna inside the fuselage. None of these folks has ever
> installed a Garmin 300 on a Fairchild, so this is why I'm posing the
> question to the group. I'm also needing the radio to work fairly
> well since the airplane is going to be kept at a towered airport in
> the Dallas-Fort Worth area, home of some really busy airspace.
>
> Thanks in advance for the help.