Steve,
If you get ambitious (or are just downright cheap) go
to the Blue Mountain Avionics site
www.bluemountainavionics.com , click on "installation"
and about half way down the installation page is a
heading "GPS Antennae" ...where you will find a link to
a page to build your own passive GPS antenna (or the
direct link is:
http://freespace.virgin.net/dave.griffin/antenna.htm ).
There is also a link to Trimble GPS to check out their
antenna selection (passive and active) if you want
reference material.
I am planning on building all of my own antennas (from
the RST Engineering http://www.rst-engr.com/ book &
kit), including the above mentioned passive GPS (I will
use this passive GPS home built unit for testing since
my Blue Mountain EFIS/One will be delivered with a
Trimble active GPS antenna).
Whichever antenna I finally use, I will build a little
boss on the underside of the glare shield, behind the
instrument panel, on which to mount the GPS antenna to
keep it nicely hidden and my aircraft very clean
looking.
Regards,
Dean Wiegand
Sacramento CA USA
dwiegand@surewest.net
kit A259
-----Original Message-----
From: forum-owner@europaclub.org.uk
Steve Hagar
Subject: Remote GPS antenna
I am going to mount my hand held GPS for use in the
cockpit. It has the
option for remotely mounting of the antenna. Upon
perusal of the
Aircraft Spruce catalog it seems all the units they
have are
multi-hundreds of dollars!!!. I want to put it in the
ceiling between
the two doors. Does anyone have any experience with a
home made or
non-aircraft remote antenna in this application. I was
looking for a
sub-$100 unit for an antenna since the whole GPS is
only $450.SteveA143Mesa,
AZ--- Steve Hagar--- hagargs@earthlink.net
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