[TowerTalk] Great balls on wire

[Jim Lux]

At 03:44 AM 10/7/2005, Tom Rauch wrote:
> > Look at modern car radio antennas for an example.
>
>
>My car antennas are wrapped because they are fiberglass.
>Reception is terrible without the wire on the outside of the
>non-metallic core.
>
>When they were stainless they weren't wrapped.


It's also to suppress the wind induced vibrations on the thicker cross 
section and the lower stiffness. There's some company that actually has the 
patent on the technique (might have expired by now)


I haven't seen any analysis of the field expedient car antennas made from 
unbent coat hangers.
(now there's a senior project for someone.. numerical modeling and field 
measurements..)


>73 Tom