antenna guide stopper

[ronlock]

This piece of Georgie's comments might be critical.   After a days flying, I removed wing
to find ENTIRE antenna randomly scattered around in wing bay!!    Since then, I wedge 
a piece of slit fuel tube in the straw entrance.

Ron Lockhart

> ...it is wise to place a small piece of  foam over the entrance hole jammed in place with some kind of keeper in order to prevent vibration from backing the antenna out of the tube....<
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: george kennie 
  To: discussion at nsrca.org 
  Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 1:29 PM
  Subject: Re: antenna guide


  Sounds to me like you guys are making this more difficult than it is. Just take a standard set of Nyrod tubes and install the outer casing into the fuse in a position where you feel it will be secure( I try to locate as far away from any control cables as possible). This outer tubing has an inside diameter of approximately 1/8" so it presents no resistance to the insertion of the antenna wire. O.K., now what you do is cut approximately a 1/2" piece off of the inner size tubing. Take this 1/2" piece and slide the very end of your antenna wire into it 'til it just exits the opposite end from the insertion end and hit it with a very small drop of Cya. Now go fishing through your stash of music wire and pick out a piece of about .020 wire and just push the inner plug to the end of the outer tube.Remember, it's Nyrod so it will slide in very easily and you will have no fear of nicking the antenna because you are pushing on the plug, not the wire itself. It will be necessary to place your finger on the entrance hole as you withdraw the music wire so that the wire wont pull the antenna part way back out. Once the wire is withdrawn it is wise to place a small piece of  foam over the entrance hole jammed in place with some kind of keeper in order to prevent vibration from backing the antenna out of the tube. As long as the foam piece is pressed over the entrance hole, there is not enough space around the antenna wire itself, inside the tube, for it to be able to back down the wire. 
  When you want to remove it just remove the piece of foam and it slides out like it was on ball bearings. 
  Georgie 
  Michael H Lance wrote: 

    Try using a really thin guide wire to pull it through the tube instead of jamming it.This removes the chance of cutting or kinking the antennae during insertion.Use of a little talc, or similar, as seen earlier in this thread will make things easier yet.

      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
    Mike Lance 

    NSRCA #659 

    AMA #4498 
      

      
    -----Original Message----- 
    From: discussion-request at nsrca.org [mailto:discussion-request at nsrca.org] On Behalf Of Del Rykert 
    Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 7:41 PM 
    To: discussion at nsrca.org 
    Subject: Re: antenna guide 


    I have been using the smaller Nyrod as a sleeve and slide the wire down inside it after it is glued inside the fuse. The small size allows the wire to slide yet to small to allow kinking. I would be fearful of cutting the wire using a rod to jamb it down the tube. You don't want to create an electrically shorter antenna length.
         Del K. Rykert

         AMA - 8928  
         NSRCA - 473 
         Kb2joi - General  
      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: Emory Schroeter
      To: Pattern NSRCA
      Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2003 3:09 PM
      Subject: antenna guide
      Hello,
      What kinds of ways are you all using to guide your antenna through the fuse? I just haven't found a way that I liked a whole lot. I want something that is pretty easy to get the antenna in and out, even at the field. I've used some guide tubes, but I always needed a pushrod to ram it back in so that I had a fully extended antenna. Just looking for some ideas. Thanks in advance.
      Emory Schroeter.
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