Jon Baer wrote: > Agency Probes D.C. Wireless Network > The Associated Press > Sep 29 2002 1:40PM > [...] > A Pringles can is ideal because of its shape - a long tube that lets > someone to point it at specific buildings - and its aluminum inner > lining. It acts like a satellite dish, collecting signals and bouncing > them to the receiver, which is then wired into a laptop.
My own measurements indicate that the aluminum-colored lining of the tube is not an electric conductor, and thus the Pringles antenna is not a waveguide antenna (and not a satellite dish either, obviously). Instead, I think it is a yagi antenna. Can anyone confirm or deny this? Other models described on the web have the same rod-and-washers (yagi directors) but a plastic tube instead of the Pringles can. http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/448 http://www.netscum.com/~clapp/wireless.html -- Lars Aronsson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Aronsson Datateknik Teknikringen 1e, SE-583 30 Linuxköping, Sweden tel +46-70-7891609 http://aronsson.se/ http://elektrosmog.nu/ http://susning.nu/ -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
