Still flippin’ cold !

A busy weekend with home bits but managed to get up to the hangar to start the new setup and position of the radio antenna

The original was smack in the centre of the upper cabane as this was largely an open structure bound by 2 capped ply edge ribs and a centre rib. The whole thing was covered in 1mm Finnish ply and beefed up in the centre which a ply mount for the antenna.

The new upper alloy spare dump tank means that the open structure has gone but the large aero shaped tank is slightly slimmer (at the edges) and so allows space for an offset mount of the new (replaced) antenna .. the other , although probably fine, was bent through 45′ as the aircraft flipped.

I don’t really want the antenna in the body although that could be a logical location..the original, with its upper cabane location and large baco foil style landing plane gave me solid reception up to just short of the Isle of Wight from Jersey at just 2,500 – 3,000′

I’m planning on using the same foil and sandwich idea to get good connectivity