{"id":683,"date":"2011-10-02T00:43:49","date_gmt":"2011-10-02T00:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/?p=683"},"modified":"2013-12-18T04:48:30","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T04:48:30","slug":"this-project-officially-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/?p=683","title":{"rendered":"This project officially sucks."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>6 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Six hours of trying to find a spot for the comm anntenna that doesn&#8217;t dump massive amounts of RF power into the EFIS.   I can&#8217;t find one.   The Garmin GNS430W manual says antennas need to be two feet from RF-sensitive equipment.   The EFIS manual says pretty much the same thing, including keeping antenna wires away from all the other wires.   That&#8217;s just not feasible.   I don&#8217;t have a SWR meter either.   I need to recheck my antenna grounds.   Again.  <\/p>\n<p>Oh, and I should probably move the plane outside to do these tests. A lot of guys on VAF have said their RF interference problems went away when they got out of the hangar.   There&#8217;s also the option of capacitive filtering, but what I&#8217;ve got runs deep.   The EFIS will blip out without anything connected to it at all.   <\/p>\n<p>Off to Decom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>6 hours. Six hours of trying to find a spot for the comm anntenna that doesn&#8217;t dump massive amounts of RF power into the EFIS. I can&#8217;t find one. The Garmin GNS430W manual says antennas need to be two feet from RF-sensitive equipment. The EFIS manual says pretty much the same thing, including keeping antenna [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1313,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions\/1313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}