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To: JRandomFreeper

You are a gem! What would we do without FR?

Are you going to have 6 ft. antennas at both ends of the link? And I’m assuming you can coil up those antennas a bit to reduce their size. Think about how the mad bombers would have managed this inside a backpack and on their person.


58 posted on 04/26/2013 7:47:23 PM PDT by InterceptPoint (a)
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To: InterceptPoint
No, for the xmit side, it will be a base tuned coil antenna like the toy cars use, and for the rx side, it will be 6 ft of magnet wire into the pressure cooker. I will probably tape it into an ovoid on one side of the cooker.

Other than sending my callsign as required by law, I'll break squelch and walk away until I don't break squelch again. I've got most of the area around here sorted out for distance markers (just something to do when bored) and I'll see how far away it works.

/johnny

60 posted on 04/26/2013 8:01:56 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: InterceptPoint
About 120 meters. That's as far as I got before the neighbor had to go tend to her hang-over. She was listening on the recieve end.

/johnny

80 posted on 04/27/2013 9:03:04 AM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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