Not a Bow Tie!
Gentlemen,
First, let me apologize for my long absence away from your board. Crohn's disease and surgery have left me running on minimal systems, but I will try and keep up! Some of you have contacted me through the Byonics webpage tech support E-mail link, which is of course, always just fine.
The V6 antenna is in excess of one meter long, is made of light gauge music wire. The ends are rolled into .10 loops and plastic dipped in high visibility lacquer so you don't put your eye out ( i.e., see: "Red Ryder BB gun") It comes with a one meter SMA patch cord. It was primarily designed for high altitude "edge of space" balloon flights, but hams will do what hams will do, and lots of them have been installed either vertically in fiberglass ships, or horizontally, often in gliders. The antenna has significantly more gain then our magnet mount and more importantly, provides its own ground, so it loads an RTG well and eliminates instability. ( The rubber duck antenna is a complete non-starter with the RTG- the SWR is just too high, and the processor will eventually freak out from excessive SWR)
I would stick with Pete Howell's wire J-pole for the wing tip application.
Best regards,
Allen
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