[MLB-WIRELESS] More antenna ideas (Was: Mobile phone antennas)

[fenn_b at smktech.com.au]

> this might be fun to try some time...  mind you, my 
> antenae theory is non-existant, so this might just be a pipe dream...
>

On the theme of antenna ideas, pipe dreams and a complete lack of
antenna theory: ;)

I have been having a think about this - I have access to suitable
machinery to manufacture a perfect parabolic dish template (in whatever:
metal, wood, plastic, lard). I was thinking - Would it be
possible/worthwhile with such a template to use something like
fiberglass matting + some sort of metal core (flywire?) laid over it to
form a very cheap, very light, high-gain parabolic dish suitable for our
purposes?

If it's useful, we could have an group antenna-day and churn out a whole
heap of them to replace the lack of easy-to-obtain galaxies.

Am I just waaaaaaaaaaaaay of base here or maybe onto something that
could be construed as slightly more than completely useless? ;)

	Fenn.


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