Re: increased range of a remote

[Bernard Cleyet <anngeorg@PACBELL.NET>]

I initially thought the effect might be due to reflection, not due to
adding a director (Yagi).

Some enterprising person may create a TPT article from this?

bc

John Denker wrote:

> My BS meter is pretty much pegged.
>
> I've seen some big, dense books on antenna design.
>
> When somebody says that you get antenna gain because
> of "capacitive coupling", it's equivalent to somebody
> saying that a car-engine works because of "force".
> What about the other 99.9% of the story??????
>
> Didn't anybody think of controlling for other variables,
> such as the fact that on most people, their chin is
> _higher_ than their pants-pocket, so that radiation from
> that location has a better shot at clearing obstacles?