{"id":744,"date":"2011-08-31T17:04:30","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T17:04:30","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-12-09T06:47:50","modified_gmt":"2017-12-09T06:47:50","slug":"installed-garmin-gtn-635-anten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2011\/08\/31\/installed-garmin-gtn-635-anten\/","title":{"rendered":"Installed Garmin GTN 635 Antenna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I stopped by my avionics shop over lunch today and picked up the GA 35 antenna for my GTN 635. \u00a0Dynon recommends installing any GPS antennas at least 1&#8242; from the ADAHRS, and Garmin recommends installing the GPS antenna with at least 7.5&#8243; ground plane all the way around the antenna. \u00a0These two recommendations necessitated moving the antenna behind the F-707 bulkhead. \u00a0I fabricated a doubler from 0.040&#8243; aluminum that matches the outline of the antenna and then installed it to the fuselage.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/rv7pictures\/Originals\/20110831\/IMG_9648.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_9648.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s where the antenna is relative to the aft window. \u00a0The ADAHRS is roughly under the aft edge of that piece of paper, putting it roughly 18&#8243; from the GPS antenna.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/rv7pictures\/Originals\/20110831\/IMG_9649.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_9649.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Afterward, I crimped on a TNC connector and ran the antenna cable along the underside of the upper rib next to the Dynon network cable.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/rv7pictures\/Originals\/20110831\/IMG_9650.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_9650.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stopped by my avionics shop over lunch today and picked up the GA 35 antenna for my GTN 635. \u00a0Dynon recommends installing any GPS antennas at least 1&#8242; from the ADAHRS, and Garmin recommends installing the GPS antenna with at least 7.5&#8243; ground plane all the way around the antenna. \u00a0These two recommendations necessitated &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2011\/08\/31\/installed-garmin-gtn-635-anten\/\" class=\"excerpt-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-avionics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3204,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions\/3204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}