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Old June 16th 05, 03:26 PM
Ron Wanttaja
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On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 10:01:57 -0400, John Wier wrote:

Now I'm sure there isn't a reader on this site that at one time didn't
try putting foil on their rabbit ears back before we had cable and
satellite tv. And it seemed to help. We were in effect making dish
antenna's of sorts. So we could grab more radio beams if we put some
foil in our aircraft antenna's


I used aluminum foil for a ground plane....

http://www.bowersflybaby.com/stories/ground_plane.JPG

Covered it with wood-grained contact paper.

Ron Wanttaja