I was out of town for most of last week and then was sick as a dog for the first part of this week, so I haven't worked on the project for a while. Decided to get back in the saddle with something easy, so I fabricated a mount for the ELT antenna.

This ELT is approved for two different antennas. I mistakenly ordered it from ACS with the longer of the two and didn't think that it would fit under the empennage fairing, so I ordered the shorter one from Dodson off a wrecked Bonanza. Turns out the longer one will fit as long as I take care to insulate and secure the tip so it doesn't rub against the aft H/S spar. My plan right now is to use the longer antenna as long as the magnetometer I'm planning to put back there passes the ops check, but it's nice to have options.

Anyway, the antenna mount is a simple piece of .032 bent into C channel for rigidity. It's clecoed on for now, but you can see in the picture how it crosses the starboard lightening hole in the F-709 bulkhead. and will just be held on by a couple of rivets in each end.