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June 16th 05, 03:01 PM
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On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 22:22:40 -0700, "Pete Schaefer"
wrote: Certainly. It also improves the odds of intercepting extraterrestrial communications traffic. For best results, you need to cover your entire head with tin foil, too. This helps reject cosmic radiation, improving your signal-to-noise ratio. "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? 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 
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