RE: [RCSE] Antenna Info

2004-08-13 Thread Jared
Wow...never thought this thread would grow to be this long! Antenna theory is too much...I'm going to go back to my elementary school days and just fly paper planes and maybe some control line if I get really ambitious :) come to think of it at the last club meeting I couldn't even get a boomerang

RE: [RCSE] Antenna Info

2004-08-13 Thread Buddy Roos
10:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [RCSE] Antenna Info All, Thanks for all the fast replies! Looks like I'm just going to throw out the T thing and do a single wire in one of the wings :) Any suggestions on doing this? Do I actually need to route a tunnel or if I use a fairly small wir

RE: [RCSE] Antenna Info

2004-08-13 Thread Charles Frey
Guys, The system is made to work with less than optimal antenna position. If we could all have RF transparent planes with the right structure for mounting a precision cut antenna, then great, like the man said, we could all fly our planes even further past that mile we can't see them at anymore

RE: [RCSE] Antenna Info

2004-08-13 Thread Simon Van Leeuwen
Hello Arne, Close. Generally it is accepted that pointing the transmitter antenna at the aircraft will create the worst signal reception as seen from the aircraft's receiver. Due to the human, and the near earth ground plane, the actual area of worst reception (null point - or area of minimum

RE: [RCSE] Antenna Info

2004-08-13 Thread Arne Ansper
On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Simon Van Leeuwen wrote: Hi Anker, As you are refering to the transmitter antenna, you can include your body and the surrounding ground making up the GNDplane. As a result, the premise that the worst point of radiation os off the end of (directly in line) the antenna element i

RE: [RCSE] Antenna Info

2004-08-13 Thread Simon Van Leeuwen
more than > enough transmitted power to control the plane within sight there really > isn't a reason to go to all this effort. > > Anker > > -Original Message- > From: Bryan Becker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 3:42 PM > To: [EMA

RE: [RCSE] Antenna Info

2004-08-13 Thread Anker Berg-Sonne
al Message- From: Bryan Becker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 3:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [RCSE] Antenna Info Simon, Is there an easy way to tune your antenna length, once you have installed your RX in your model? --Bryan -Original Message-

RE: [RCSE] Antenna Info

2004-08-13 Thread Simon Van Leeuwen
> > Is there an easy way to tune your antenna length, once you have installed > your RX in your model? > > --Bryan > > -Original Message- > From: Simon Van Leeuwen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 1:34 PM > To: Jared > C

Re: [RCSE] Antenna Info

2004-08-13 Thread Doug McLaren
On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 11:49:42AM -0700, Bill Swingle wrote: | But, in my experience. Most any antenna designed to be shorter than the | factory monopole will Decrease signal. The R/C site agrees with this and | claims a minimum range reduction. No surprise here. Right-o. Probably the best rece