RHF wrote:
On May 26, 5:04 am, D Peter Maus wrote:
RHF wrote:
On May 25, 4:29 pm, D Peter Maus wrote:
RHF wrote:
On May 24, 10:50 am, Telamon
wrote:
In article
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RHF wrote:
On May 21, 8:29 pm, Telamon
wrote:
In article
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RHF wrote:
SNIP
- I have the antenna that is in the rear window..
Auto Rear Window Antenna . . . ROTFL - oaoa ~ RHF
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OK news group retard. I missed the joke. Please explain what is so funny
about rear window car antennas as many cars have them? This should be
good.
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Teli-Tard© - Poluting another On-Topic Thread
with Your Personal Attacks and Name Calling.
Yeah, right news group retard. Spew your usual crap that you can't
backup in any way.
PONG : Telamon from Teli-Tard© to TelaMonkey© to Tela-Twit©
I'm so I'm a a twit posting off topic? I asked you a straight forward on
topic question news group retard. See if you can answer it. You can't
answer it of course because you are retarded but give it a shot anyway.
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Telamon
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Telamon - Please Enlighten Me -if- You Can . . .
To-Date : I have not found one In-the-Window Car Antenna
that performs as well as a simple Whip Antenna on a Car.
Must have been in 20~25 Cars over the years with the
Tiny-Wire-in-the-Glass "Window" Antennas and most
of them had poor to no reception where a Whip Antenna
had Good overall Reception.
Applies equally to both AM & FM Radio Reception.
Presently have two Cars with Window Antennas and
both have Radio Reception problems driving down the
Freeway-of-Life {Highway-of-Happiness} where the 'other'
two Cars do not.
waiting for the great-one to speak ~ RHF
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Actually, Roy, the antenna-in-the-window was created to solve two
problems, and one design cue issue. Although, two such antenna designs
were created to resolve a reception issue.
The antenna-in-the-window solves the problem of mechanical and wind
noise associated with the airflow around a whip at highway speed. The
whip, at speed, vibrates, which creates mechanical noise. It also
whistles, which can be really annoying. Chrysler solved these problems
by sleeving the whip. GM broke up the airflow with a spiral ridge up the
length of the whip. Both problems solved.
But it didn't solve the primary issue....vandalism. Inner city owners
have been plagued with seasons of external antenna theft and breakage.
And attendant body damage caused when the fender flexes under the strain
off a whip being broken off. Similar damage occurs in some car washes.
The window antenna eliminates all of these problems. Albeit at the cost
of some fringe performance.
One Japanese manufacturer, I think it was Honda, created a two
element window antenna that was supposed to reduce multipath
interference. This similar to a design in which Chrysler used a window
antenna and a whip as a diversity reception system.
Stylistically speaking, the window antenna cleans up the design of
the vehicle. Something designers have been scratching their heads over
for years.
But the window antenna isn't a new concept. The first car antennae
were loops hidden in a non metalic panel in the roof of the car. The
whip was a cost effective alternative that was also easier to
manufacture and install. It also permitted aftermarket addition of
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DPM,
To my way of thinking an Antenna has a single
{Primary} Function : Improved Radio Reception.
IMHO - The In-the-Window Antenna's tiny-wires
can't 'whip' the Whip Antenna.
~ RHF
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In most cases, true. But, like myself, your primary consideration is
effective reception. We are of a small minority. Most car buyers take
the radio for granted. Most don't recognize reception performance
deficits. The radio is an appliance. They turn it on, if the lights
light, it's working and all is well. Real performance evaluations rarely
happen. More attention is paid to the thunder produced by the subwoofer
than anything relating to radio reception. Cars are bought for their
lines, their features, and their price. Not the radio.

Keep in mind we live in a culture of highly cultivated ignorance..
Radio antennas are barely understood by practitioners of radiocraft, let
alone the general public. And cutural norms have been shaped to value
appearance over performance, in very nearly every application.

If radio reception performance was an issue to the public, every home
would have an external antenna, no HOA CC&R would contain an antenna
restriction, and IBOC wouldn't have been permitted to get past the first
few paragraphs of the initial proposal abstract. Sadly, this isn't the
case. There are those who still insist that a well designed TV wouldn't
need an antenna, that indoor antennae can be made to be as effective as
externals, that radio antennae are unnecessary aberrations on the Divine
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DPM - You should copyright this line ~ RHF

"Keep in mind we live in a culture of highly cultivated ignorance."
* We live in a culture of highly cultivated ignorance.
* * A culture of highly cultivated ignorance..
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It's not the sort of thing anyone of us should be proud of.