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Re: Mini-beams

Subject: Re: Mini-beams
From: Susan Hughes <susan@magick.net>
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 20:22:32
>>Blue@carolina-chat.com wrote
>>
>>>Please read the attachment.  Thanks, Robert
>>>
>>>
>>>        I design and make mini-beams for CB and Ham radios.  These
>>
>>
>>Robert - I think you should know you're wasting your time posting your ads
>>to the Europa List. This list is for discussion of the Europa home-built
>>aeroplane, and has no interest in CB or ham radios. Posting ads
>>indiscriminately like this is a good way to get a lot of people mad at you
>>very fast.
>>
>So why take up even more time & space distributing the whole lot again?
>
>Besides some Europa builders are also Radio Amateurs and may well be
interested.
>This enterprising chap is obviously an antenna expert and could well be able
>to come up with some good designs for very efficient light weight aerials
>for composite construction aircraft. E.g. for GPS and HF as well as the
>obvious HF.
>The aircraft band is very wide and a thin wire has a narrow bandwidth; a
>large diameter tube gives a much wider bandwidth. Perhaps the tailplane
>pivot tube could be tuned and loaded-up? (The electrical characteristic of
>the steel is probably not good but it has a really useful diameter.)
>Copper tape or braid should be much better than a thin wire for the VHF
>bandwidth required and this could be accommodated in the fin or applied to
>the inside of the rear part of the fuselage.  I feel that the leading edge
>of the fin would give a better angular position than the trailing edge for
>downward emmission (albeit biased to the ground below & behind.
>
>           Btw for the record I am GM0 BVK 
>That's all for now from Eric Evers 
>
>Eric Evers wrote:
>> 
>
>snip.........
>
>> So why take up even more time & space distributing the whole lot again?
To accomodate fat people.
>> 
>> Besides some Europa builders are also Radio Amateurs and may well be
interested.
>> This enterprising chap is obviously an antenna expert and could well be able
>> to come up with some good designs for very efficient light weight aerials
>> for composite construction aircraft. E.g. for GPS and HF as well as the
>> obvious HF.
>> 
>>            Btw for the record I am GM0 BVK
>> That's all for now from Eric Evers
>
>Agreed, Eric - and I emailed the originator direct saying much the
>same......................
>
>               And, also BTW, I am 9Y4TAM...............
>
>CUL es 73,
>
>
>Martin
>
>
>-- 
>  Martin W. Berner, 
>  26 Mayfield Road, Valsayn Park, Trinidad, The West Indies
>
>                Live Long and Prosper !
>



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