- NEVER coil an antenna. For the antenna to work properly, it must be stretched out to its full length
- Is your Conquest post-1990 or "Gold stickered"? If it isn't either of those, it's not legal for you to use in the US. I have a channel 48 Conquest that works perfectly fine, but I can't use it since it's a 1986 model. As to the question of "Why can't I use it?", in 1991, the FCC reduced the band width allowed from a wide band of 80+ KHz previously allowed down to narrow band of 40KHz. Any radio that was not updated within a certain period of time(mine wasn't due to lack of funds) became illegal to operate.
As for how to route an antenna, there were normally two ways used:
- Run the antenna out the top of the cabin and attached to the top of the tail in some way. This would be the easiest in your case
- Run the antenna through the fuse and out at the rear through the elevator pushrod opening. The question in your case is are the bulkheads solid or are they just frames the stringers are attached to? If they are solid, it would be very difficult to route the antenna through the fuse
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