{"id":3007,"date":"2010-10-16T10:23:34","date_gmt":"2010-10-16T16:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/?p=3007"},"modified":"2015-02-07T10:28:03","modified_gmt":"2015-02-07T16:28:03","slug":"13-1-4-glideslope-antenna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/16\/13-1-4-glideslope-antenna\/","title":{"rendered":"13.1.4 Glideslope Antenna"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pps-series-post-details pps-series-post-details-variant-classic pps-series-post-details-4068\" data-series-id=\"37\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-content\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-text\">This entry is part 54 of 67 in the series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/series\/13-electrical-instrumentation\/\">13 - Electrical \/ Instruments<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">While waiting for the paint (yeah, yeah, yeah. Primer) to fully cure, I build the glideslope antenna. I used the RST Engineering foil and placed it between the bottom of the windshield and the doghouse opening.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Here&#8217;s the two pieces of foil that will be the two legs of the antenna.<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2010-10-16-0755-IMG_0734.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-3009\" src=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2010-10-16-0755-IMG_0734-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"2010-10-16 0755 IMG_0734\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">And after the coaxial leads are attached and then covered with thickened epoxy and then a layer of BID.<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/pictures\/2010\/IMG_0735.JPG\"><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2010-10-16-0848-IMG_0735.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-3008\" src=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2010-10-16-0848-IMG_0735-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"2010-10-16 0848 IMG_0735\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Sadly, I would later learn this was a TOTAL waste of time. The Nav radio that I purchased didn&#8217;t have an input for the glideslope antenna.\u00a0 When I asked the manufacture, they told me that they get the signal from the VOR antenna and that almost nobody uses separate glideslope antennas anymore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pps-series-post-details pps-series-post-details-variant-classic pps-series-post-details-4068 pps-series-meta-excerpt\" data-series-id=\"37\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-content\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-text\">This entry is part 54 of 67 in the series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/series\/13-electrical-instrumentation\/\">13 - Electrical \/ Instruments<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><p>While waiting for the paint (yeah, yeah, yeah. Primer) to fully cure, I build the glideslope antenna. I used the RST Engineering foil and placed it between the bottom of the windshield and the doghouse opening. Here&#8217;s the two pieces &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/16\/13-1-4-glideslope-antenna\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"series":[37],"class_list":["post-3007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-7","series-13-electrical-instrumentation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3010,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3007\/revisions\/3010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3007"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=3007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}