"PhattyMo" wrote in message
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Just about anything works better than the Pringles(tm) can that made
the antennas famous. I made one with a large fruit juice can and it
worked fairly decent. I picked up about 10 db compared to the stock
antenna.


Jimmie

Ditto,but mine was a clam-chowder can,IIRC. Got funny looks walking down
the soup aisle with a tape measure..but I found a can with
nearly-perfect diameter.

The 2.4 GHz Multipoint Distribution System (MDS) pirate receivers from the
1980's used a coffee can. The circuit board parts kit was sized to fit
inside the standard 1-lb coffee can, so you knew (without the tape measure
;-).

I still have one overhead in the garage. It worked much better with a big
cone of screenwire out in front. Maybe the experimentors should work in
that direction. The cone acted just like a funnel.

Since the MDS signals are/were NTSC television, improvements could be
evaluated real-time.

"Sal"