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Re: Remote GPS antenna

Subject: Re: Remote GPS antenna
From: McFadyean <ami@mcfadyean.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 07:10:27
Why?
My Garmin handheld with its built-in aerial works fine in the cockpit .
Other brands and other geographical locations may be different, but there is 
(for
me at least) little point in a remote aerial.

Duncan Mcf.

On Monday, November 04, 2002 12:00 AM, Steve Hagar [SMTP:hagargs@earthlink.net]
wrote:
> 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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