What about putting aluminum foil on your antenna?

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

On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 10:01:57 -0400, John Wier wrote:

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

I used aluminum foil for a ground plane....

http://www.bowersflybaby.com/stories/ground_plane.JPG

Covered it with wood-grained contact paper.

Ron Wanttaja