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Posted By: Hal Brown
Date Posted: Aug 26, 2007
Description: When dropping Scott off at Bill Widen’s hangar, I spotted a beautiful yellow bird. This ‘Rey belongs at the Eagle’s Nest airport, but it temporarily resting in Bill’s nest.

The bird is being traded in on a newer model. I'm pretty sure this one caught Scott's eye (don't know about Janice as her eyes were mostly on her newly recovered engagement ring).
Date Taken: Aug 26, 2007
Place Taken: Orlando-Apopka Airport, FL
Owner: Dan Nickens
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Category: 282, Summer Splashing
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Jim Thomas - Aug 27,2007   Viewers  | Reply
    She lost her ring?     
  
Dan Nickens - Aug 27,2007   Viewers  | Reply
    Yes she did, Jim (actually she just lost the rock), but a Gay Tiki waitress found and returned it.     
  
Jim Thomas - Aug 30,2007   Viewers  | Reply
    I saw in other posts that it was the rock and not the ring. Suzanne lost her soltaire necklace in the landscape and by some miracle of fate, we found it. One of these days, I really need to insure this stuff... She lost a pair of earings that cost me as much as a 912s to replace! <br /><br />The replacements, unfortunately, came from a jewelry dealer in Altamonte Springs who will soon be calling Starke home. I get to testify at his trial.<br /><br />How do you know the waitress was gay?     
  
Frank A. Carr - Aug 31,2007   Viewers  | Reply
    Well, let's see: for the same $ you could:<br />a) drive it,<br />b) fish from it<br />c) start it and push your amphibian, or<br />d) wear it.<br />Da?     
  
Jim Thomas - Aug 31,2007   Viewers  | Reply
    Frank,<br /><br />All of the above. But keeping her happy made my recent avionics expenditure of double that amount a lot more palatable. &lt;g&gt;     
  
Frank A. Carr - Aug 31,2007   Viewers  | Reply
    Ah, Ah: Keeping her happy....priceless.     
  
Jim Thomas - Sep 03,2007   Viewers  | Reply
    Frank,<br /><br />When Mama's not happy, ain't nobody happy!<br /><br />Back to the Xponder antenna, any reason not to mount it downwards from the nose or turtle decks? forward of the battery, or aft of the fuel tank?     
  
Dan Nickens - Sep 04,2007   Viewers  | Reply
    All this talk of antennas is SO NOT FUN! (I'm pretty sure it would be much more lively on the technical site where people who mount their antennas in the nose are said to have long nose hairs and those who mount them under the wing don't use deodorant!) In accordance with 1456 U.S. Code of STS, Part Fifty two Chapter 39 (B) (2) (k) (iii), all technical discussions (except those involving nose hairs) are banned from this site.     
  
Dan Nickens - Aug 31,2007   Viewers  | Reply
    She was definitely gay, Jim, as evidenced by her nice smile. (Years ago when we first found the Tiki Hut we figured it must be SeaRey paradise. The sweet little waitress' name was 'Buttercup' or something equally appropriate. Upon hearing about the place, a jealous spouse told her SeaRey husband that it was a 'gay' joint figuring he would avoid it and lose some weight. He did neither. It has been known as the 'Gay Tiki Hut' ever since.)     
  
Jim Thomas - Aug 31,2007   Viewers  | Reply
    This is the one on lake Minneola, right? I can't wait to splash in there and join you guys. There and all the other splash-in restaurants you guys have found!     
  
John Spratt - Aug 27,2007   Viewers  | Reply
    There are 3 Seareys in this photo...the yellow one and two in the background. I like where N1939W put its transponder antenna and VHF antenna. Anyone else do this that can report on its effectiveness? Click on the photo to see full size. I would also like to know how the black vinyl trim along the nosedeck/hull seam was made to look like chrome. Monokote?     
  
Kenneth Leonard - Aug 27,2007   Viewers  | Reply
    Actually, 4 seareys. Yellow, two frames side by side and the wing facing the back wall of #4. You might be able to buy a roll of chrome tape and just cut it to match the rubber bumper...     
  
Dan Nickens - Aug 27,2007   Viewers  | Reply
    All I can say, John, is the trim gleamed like chrome. Very cool.     
  
Dave Lima - Aug 27,2007   Viewers  | Reply
    John, I have my vhf antenna in the same place, works very well, Dennis V and I can talk from at least 25 miles away.     
  
Lee Coulman - Aug 27,2007   Viewers  | Reply
    Dave<br />From a design point of view it doesn't look that good. But it's better than that folded dipole on JIB (that is blocked by a nice big aluminum fuel tank.<br />The VHF antenna needs a better and symetrical ground plane. This type of installation may have some very good frequencies of operation, but it could be erratic on others. That clamp near the feed point really affects my RF sensibilities. Since no part of the Searay is really grounded or bonded, anything may happen. It is best to check the VSWR of the transmitter output to determine if the installation is a problem at the first order. Next step to plot the transmitter output at a fixed radius around the aircraft. I'm in the process of adding a whip antenna in front of the radiator of JIB. I have blind spots to the port/rear, on the other side of the tank. I couldn't hear Dennis 2 miles behind but I never seem to be ahead of Dennis anymore.(sigh!)<br />The transponder antenna is another story. Location looks good for the least amount of obstructions. The feeder length may have some 3 to 5 dB of loss, like losing half (and more) of the transmitter output (and a corresponding loss of receiver sensitivity). My preference is still on the nose, using a real blade antenna.     
  
Jim Thomas - Aug 30,2007   Viewers  | Reply
    I was planning on putting the (TED) xponder antenna either in the nose, forward of the battery. Any reason why I shouldn't?     
  
Lee Coulman - Sep 07,2007   Viewers  | Reply
    Jim<br />Should be OK but it will be vulnerable to contamination by water. The TED antenna has an open connection at the base of the antenna. It works though. But you must have a good ground plane of about 8 inches square. You could you light duty aluminum and glue it to the back of the hatch.<br />This location gives good antenna visibility, reduces coaxial loss and keeps radiation away from your head and torso.<br />Still prefer a blade a real blade antenna.     
  
John Robert Dunlop - Sep 08,2007   Viewers  | Reply
    Hey Lee, since when did the TED antenna get contaminated by water in CGJIB's nose?(Jim, as long as you don't have a Carbon Graphite hull and nosedeck I would mount the entire antenna inside the nose as far forward as possible.)This discussion should be moved to the Technical site....<img src="inline/20084-Nose_Transponder_Antenna_1_.jpg" alt="Nose_Transponder_Antenna[1]"><!-- >'"><br><font color=red size=6>' or &gt; missing in user HTML. Please fix the HTML.</font> -->      Attachments:  

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