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Old June 16th 05, 03:29 PM
John Wier
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On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 09:15:59 -0500, Darrel Toepfer
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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


You put too much foil, its doubling your transmissions... G


Oh! I never thought about transmissions, I was just concerned with
improving reception. Good catch!
I bought one of Bob Archers antenna's from ACS, and it's nothing but
flat aluminum sheet cut to some wierd shape. So we can save that money
by just putting foil on a plain old whip antenna. Is it possible to
have one small antenna for transmissions and another with foil for
receiption? Using a splitter of sorts?