Kye Wehrell
I'm New Here
I have just completed my RV-6A and have 11 hours TT. It has definately been a blast to fly and worth every bit of the 13 years I spent building it. My question to you all is this. I have an Icom - A200 radio with a bent whip antenna on the underside of the fuselage at the baggage compartment area. When I start up the plane and make my radio call while the engine is idling the transmission is perfect no background noise at all, while taxing to the active perfectly clear transmission, once I get airborne and I am zinging along at 180 mph and I hit my PTT on my stick I hear a loud static sound that is similar to as if I stuck my headset mic outside the cockpit and it was in the air blast. The sound is not like an alternator whining sound, but more similar to someone blowing directly into the mic. The tower and other planes can hear my transmissions fine, however with all this additional - what sounds like cockpit noise also entering the mic. As I reduce power on my descent to land the background noise while transmitting reduces proportionally to the RPM reduction. If I didn't know any better I would think it was simply cockpit, air, vibration noise being picked up by the mic. I have tried 3 other headsets and they all do the same thing? I hope someone out there has experienced this same issue and may know of solution or some guidance for me. Thanks in advance.
Kye
Kye