jliltd
Well Known Member
My RV-8 has an antenna glassed into the inside of the wing tip. It looks to be a copper foil strip maybe 28" long and is horizontally phased. It does not look like any of the Bob Archer type. An RG 58 coax pigtail comes off it and goes to the instrument panel area. It is currently unused. It was originally used before a complete instrument panel and avionics makeover a few years ago and that was before I owned the aircraft. I need a VOR/ILS antenna for a GTN 650 and was hoping this might work. I might take the opposite wing tip off to see if there is also one there. Do the hidden wing-tip antennas for VOR every have one element in each wing tip? Or do they only have them in one wing tip. This could be a Comm antenna even though it's not vertical.
Are there other wing tip antenna designs out there other than Bob Archer made of copper?
Jim
Are there other wing tip antenna designs out there other than Bob Archer made of copper?
Jim