Well then, what about trailing antenna's?

On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 00:41:28 -0400, tedstriker
wrote:

On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 02:55:16 GMT, "COLIN LAMB"
wrote:

The 1/4 mile trailing wire works very well if you put a tin can and a button
on the end.

And, the old story is that if some part of the aircraft is still on the
ground it is not flying, which means you do not need pilot's license. Then,
the problem is that if you are not flying a real plane, you do not have an
automatic aircraft radio license. Since you do not have a radio license,
the tin can will work to talk to the ground. Just circle around a point so
that the end stays at the same point, so you can talk to the guy on the
ground.

This would work especially well during a lightning storm at night, because
the guy on ground will become a beacon as well.

The military even experimented with underground antennas. You might try one
of those on your aircraft.

Colin


Your whole idea is rediculous! nonsense! I'm seriously trying to
improve 2-way radio reception and transmission. They only allow a
miserly 5 watts or so of power for light plane transmitters, so we
have to be creative. The trailing antenna will give us radio power
like an airliner has.

I couldn't resist to play along with this nonesense. Are these ideas
of Wier real?

In article , john wier wrote:
On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 20:48:53 -0400, Luke Scharf
wrote:

RST Engineering wrote:
Will somebody please take this bubba out and shoot him. Please?

Someone should at least explain the signigicance of 1/4 wavelength WRT
antennas to him first.

-Luke

1/4 wave antenna's are hogwash. They barely work. What you need is
"complete wave" or "full wave" With my trailing antenna, I'll have the
equivalent of many full wave antenna's end to end.

quarter-wave (actually any _odd_ multiple of a 1/4 wavelength) antenna's
must be perpendicular to, and with one adjacent to, a decent 'ground plane'.
When *your* plane is not on the ground, it's not surprising that your antenna
doesn't work worth a d*mn.

'Dipole' transmitting antennas need an odd multiple of 1/2 wavelength on
_each_side_ of the feed-point, for optimum performance. Be sure to let
us know how you fare at getting the other half out in *front* of the plane.

tedstriker wrote:

I couldn't resist to play along with this nonesense. Are these ideas
of Wier real?

Both John Wier and yourself use:
Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 & Giganews...

I think you forgot to change your identity...

I'm getting the uneasy feeling that "tedstriker" is either a troll or a
pilot wannabee that is singularly misinformed. "They" do NOT allow a
miserly five watts in the COM band. The maximum carrier power for a VHF COM
transmitter is 55 watts, be it airliner or ultralight. Please stop your
"rediculous!" (sic) postings if you don't have the technical knowledge to
post something approximating the truth.

Jim



"tedstriker" wrote in message
...

Your whole idea is rediculous! nonsense! I'm seriously trying to
improve 2-way radio reception and transmission. They only allow a
miserly 5 watts or so of power for light plane transmitters, so we
have to be creative. The trailing antenna will give us radio power
like an airliner has.

"Darrel Toepfer" wrote in message
...
tedstriker wrote:

I couldn't resist to play along with this nonesense. Are these ideas
of Wier real?

Both John Wier and yourself use:
Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 & Giganews...

I think you forgot to change your identity...

I see Darrel that you caught that too.

Why can't trolls at least remember who they are pretending to be? Seems
that it shouldn't be all that difficult. Maybe they could use Magic Markers
(TM) to label each tin foil hat so they'd know which 'personality' they are
at that moment.

Just a thought.

GWK

videoguy wrote:

I see Darrel that you caught that too.

I only look into it when it gets pretty obvious...

Why can't trolls at least remember who they are pretending to be? Seems
that it shouldn't be all that difficult. Maybe they could use Magic Markers
(TM) to label each tin foil hat so they'd know which 'personality' they are
at that moment.

Just a thought.

I just have a feeling that its gonna be a long summer...

"RST Engineering" wrote in message ...
Will somebody please take this bubba out and shoot him. Please?

Jim

john wier wrote in message ...
If the big aluminum foil ears on a whip antenna doesn't help




A nice long period low frequency shooting....