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John Wier wrote:
I'm thinking about using diodes and a splitter for transmitting on one small antenna and recieving on the big foil one. Good one, transmitter rhymes with splitter, so that has to work... Welding machines have those big honk'n ones with large amounts of aluminum surface. Bigger/better... |
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If you save the gum, you can chew some copper wire strands into it to make
it conductive. The gum itself is the adhesive. It's thermo-setting, too -- just leave it on your dashboard for a while to warm it up. Joining should be accomplished with an appropriate crimp tool. "Darrel Toepfer" wrote in message .. . I've saved all of my gum wrappers since I started chewing. If there a simple method of joining them together conductively? And is trimming it as simple as just folding it or should I wack it? |
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NO RELATION.
Jim "John Wier" wrote in message ... Doesn't putting aluminum foil on your TV's antenna (rabbit ears) help reception by catching more rays? So in a composite airplane, with the antenna inside the fuselage, what about putting some foil on it to catch radio rays better? |
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RST Engineering wrote:
NO RELATION. Jim "John Wier" wrote in message ... Doesn't putting aluminum foil on your TV's antenna (rabbit ears) help reception by catching more rays? So in a composite airplane, with the antenna inside the fuselage, what about putting some foil on it to catch radio rays better? My God! This reminds me of the good old days when this site gave me enough chuckles and guffaws to keep me warm all day. Gary Thomas |
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On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 08:29:04 -0700, "RST Engineering"
wrote: NO RELATION. Jim there was actually never any doubt Jim :-) |
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On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 08:29:04 -0700, "RST Engineering"
wrote: NO RELATION. Jim You mean you won't even back me up on my findings? You know it works. |
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Uhhh, won't the aluminium foil make the whip flutter in flight? This
could put some interesting mudulation on your transmissions... Perhaps this is a new transmission mode... FCC could assign it J9-AL13 as the appropriate mode designator for DAMN transmissions (Damped Amplitude Mode N-rays) denny google on Blondlot + N-rays |
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On 16 Jun 2005 08:51:22 -0700, "Denny" wrote:
Uhhh, won't the aluminium foil make the whip flutter in flight? This could put some interesting mudulation on your transmissions... Perhaps this is a new transmission mode... FCC could assign it J9-AL13 as the appropriate mode designator for DAMN transmissions (Damped Amplitude Mode N-rays) denny google on Blondlot + N-rays You missed the first posts, the foil is for internal antenna's, inside the fuselage of a composite plane. So the wind won't be a problem at all. And another bonus, it will improve a composite plane's primary radar return to ATC, if that is desired that is. |
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On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 08:29:04 -0700, "RST Engineering"
wrote: NO RELATION. Jim I can't believe Jim Weir, NO RELATION won't own up to having put foil on his TV's rabbit ears in the past. Someone with that type of electrical background I'm sure used this procedure back when we were watching TV shows in black and white, like "To Tell The Truth". But I can't help but wonder with our names spelled so similar, that way back many gerations ago, when there weren't so many of us, that we aren't somehow connected. It's evident we both inherited the same natural ability with electrics, antenna's and switches. Although, I will admitt that walking around in front of my TV's rabbit ears seemed to work even better than the foil. Haven't quite figured that one out yet. |
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On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 12:42:46 -0400, John Wier
wrote: I can't believe Jim Weir, NO RELATION won't own up to having put foil on his TV's rabbit ears in the past. Someone with that type of electrical background I'm sure used this procedure back when we were watching TV shows in black and white, like "To Tell The Truth". But I can't help but wonder with our names spelled so similar, that way back many gerations ago, when there weren't so many of us, that we aren't somehow connected. It's evident we both inherited the same natural ability with electrics, antenna's and switches. Although, I will admitt that walking around in front of my TV's rabbit ears seemed to work even better than the foil. Haven't quite figured that one out yet. John, just curious but do you know who Jim Weir is and what he does? Corky Scott |
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