Antenna in a can.....

[lbfd09]

Has anyone seen this new "news" item?

Yes there was a spray on antenna announcement this week...

Spray-on antenna gets great reception at Google event

Further covered by the Discovery Channel people....
Spray-On Wi-Fi Boosts Your Signal : Discovery News

Fact, fantasy, myth, or bleeding edge truth? Or is this a new light on some dairy by-products, just repackaged for all to chuckle at?

 

[prcguy]

A quote from the the companies uninformed shyster: "Within five minutes we had" the tree "connected and transmitting on VHF to an airplane 14 miles overhead -- double the range we could get from a standard antenna on the ground," Sutera said".

What kind of BS is that? A standard aircraft antenna on the ground talking to an aircraft only goes 7 miles?
prcguy

 

[Ed_Seedhouse]

A quote from the the companies uninformed shyster: "Within five minutes we had" the tree "connected and transmitting on VHF to an airplane 14 miles overhead

Fourteen MILES?

Don't think there is likely to be many airplanes flying at 74,000 feet that will be talking unencrypted on the air bands.

 

[K2KOH]

The government is already involved? Not good...

 

[n5ims]

A "Cantenna" is nothing new. Heath (along with several others) sold them decades ago. Here's one currently on ebay Heathkit "Cantenna" Dummy RF Load Resistor Model HN-31A | eBay

 

[burner50]

A "Cantenna" is nothing new. Heath (along with several others) sold them decades ago. Here's one currently on ebay Heathkit "Cantenna" Dummy RF Load Resistor Model HN-31A | eBay

wow....

Did you even read the thread?



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