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Old November 8th 15, 12:40 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Martin Gregorie[_5_]
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Default Dreaming of a BETTER PowerFLARM antenna

On Sat, 07 Nov 2015 17:33:00 +0000, Martin Gregorie wrote:

On Fri, 06 Nov 2015 18:26:37 -0800, SoaringXCellence wrote:

Yagi antenna are great for highly directional transmit/receive. I.E. if
you placed a yagi/flarm antenna pointing forward, the signal in any
other direction would be practically non-existant.
Not a good choice for a signal you want to send/receive in all
directions.


Of course. I know that: re-read the last few posts on the thread.

I was asking if anybody had experience with using nylon-coated steel
fishing trace for bottom-fed 1/4 wave FLARM dipoles. Its so thin you'd
soon cease to notice antennas made of it mounted on top of your glare
shield.


For 'dipole' read 'antenna'. Sorry 'bout that.



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