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Old June 16th 05, 04:16 PM
Darrel Toepfer
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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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Old June 16th 05, 04:18 PM
Pete Schaefer
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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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Old June 16th 05, 04:29 PM
RST Engineering
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NO RELATION.

Jim



"John Wier" wrote in message
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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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Old June 16th 05, 04:35 PM
Gary Thomas
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RST Engineering wrote:

NO RELATION.

Jim

"John Wier" wrote in message
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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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Old June 16th 05, 04:48 PM
Stealth Pilot
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On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 08:29:04 -0700, "RST Engineering"
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NO RELATION.

Jim

there was actually never any doubt Jim :-)
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Old June 16th 05, 04:50 PM
John Wier
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On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 08:29:04 -0700, "RST Engineering"
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NO RELATION.

Jim


You mean you won't even back me up on my findings? You know it works.
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Old June 16th 05, 04:51 PM
Denny
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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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Old June 16th 05, 05:03 PM
John Wier
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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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Old June 16th 05, 05:42 PM
John Wier
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On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 08:29:04 -0700, "RST Engineering"
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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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Old June 16th 05, 06:48 PM
Corky Scott
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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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