PSA from the bench. if your radios get quiet in the rain, it is…

Bruno Vargas · Aircraft Mechanic at Prairie Avionics · Wichita, KS

PSA from the bench. if your radios get quiet in the rain, it is almost never the radio. its a connector, an antenna base seal, or a ground strap somebody painted over. i have replaced maybe two actual comm units in eight years and about six hundred dollars worth of corroded hardware

2 comments

Pete Halloran

Antenna base seal on a floatplane is a maintenance item, not a lifetime part. Learned that in the middle of a lake.

Luz Bermudez

writing this in the notebook. painted over ground strap. of course