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Old July 20th 06, 07:19 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
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Default 80m mobile antenna question

On Fri, 03 Mar 2006 00:08:42 GMT, Cecil Moore wrote:

Roy Lewallen wrote:
A ground plane is a poor model of how currents flow along a car body.


If the car body was 1/2WL in the air, would the antenna
be more efficient?



Maybe we can get Fear Factor's engineers to calculate the number of
boxes needed to perform the test. One of us will have to drive our
car off a cliff and make signal reports as the car goes down into the
boxes


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Buck
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