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>Bought a homebuilt once. Both radio antennas had been installed the same
way - with the cardboard drilling pattern glued to the aluminum - then
left
there, and the antenna installed over the top of it. No ground plane.
The SWR was OK (<1.8:1), believe it or not. It worked out to 10 miles
or
so - then things started getting weak and scratchy. <
Both radios are mounted to aluminum rails bolted to fuselage longerons
however each radio has an aditional grounding wire (from it's main
plug) to fuselage as a precaution. The SWRs also check out the same as
you discribe as does the performance. Power output does not seem to be
the issue (again I never checked power output in the winter), just
audio quality.
Jim
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Re: "scratchy" radio transmission
