{"id":753,"date":"2011-08-17T17:04:30","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T17:04:30","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-12-14T19:02:18","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T19:02:18","slug":"worked-on-cowl-and-mounted-com-antenna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2011\/08\/17\/worked-on-cowl-and-mounted-com-antenna\/","title":{"rendered":"Worked on Cowl and Mounted Com Antenna"},"content":{"rendered":"

I mixed up some epoxy and microlight filler along with some white tint and applied it to the inside of the bottom cowl. \u00a0It started stiffening up before I could finish, but I got about half of it down. \u00a0This fills in the pattern left by the honeycomb core to provide a smooth finish and fill in any pinholes. \u00a0I’ll seal this with some neat epoxy tinted white to provide an easy to clean surface.<\/p>\n

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I decided to go ahead and mount the com antenna. \u00a0My wife gave me a hand with the nuts since you can’t reach both sides at the same time.<\/p>\n

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I then installed a BNC connector on the coax and installed it on the antenna.<\/p>\n

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I also fabricated a doubler for the transponder antenna. \u00a0I’ll need a little help riveting this on.<\/p>\n

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Finally, I fabricated the transponder antenna cable. \u00a0It has a BNC connector on one end and a TNC connector on the other.<\/p>\n

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Finally, I vacuumed out this bay and reinstalled the shelf in preparation for riveting it in place.<\/p>\n

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I mixed up some epoxy and microlight filler along with some white tint and applied it to the inside of the bottom cowl. \u00a0It started stiffening up before I could finish, but I got about half of it down. \u00a0This fills in the pattern left by the honeycomb core to provide a smooth finish and … 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":[8,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-avionics","category-finishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753","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=753"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3918,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions\/3918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}