😂. I love common sense. A seemingly rare quality these days!

Quote Originally Posted by ceslaw View Post
The January issue of Kitplanes has an article written by Jim Weir which discusses a simple ELT antenna that will work on both 121.5 MHz and 406 MHz. In order to make a simple dipole work on both bands it detunes the function on 121.5 MHz resulting in an SWR approaching 3:1. It is an option, although not one I would prefer.
What is interesting is the comment regarding the position for mounting the antenna: The question has often been asked of me, ‘Should the ELT antenna be mounted horizontally or vertically?’ The answer has always been the same: If you can tell me the orientation of the crumpled remains of the fuselage in the middle of the dust cloud when you really need the ELT, I can tell you the orientation. In my experience, a random guess is every bit as good as anything else. This is the same point noted previously in this thread.