Subj : Re: Antenna To : TOM WALKER From : MIKE ROSS Date : Wed Jul 06 2005 11:42 pm "TOM WALKER" bravely wrote to "WAYNE CHIRNSIDE" (06 Jul 05 07:06:00) --- on the heady topic of "Re: Antenna" WC>-> They why do Battery Radios work so well? WC>Because they have a balanced antenna, you know those ferrite type WC>things with the windings on them. TW> We are talking about a VHF Weather Radio. you cannot use a Ferrite TW> antenna at frequnecies that high. TW> Actualy though the RF ground is really of most importance with TW> Transmiters. IIRC before the advent of digital synthesized tuners in car radios, tuning was done using inductive coils into which a ferrite piston would be inserted or extracted, instead of the usual tuning capacitor. M*i*k*e .... When I were a lad, we had to carve our CPU's out of wood --- Blue Wave/DOS v2.30 * Origin: Juxtaposition BBS, Telnet:juxtaposition.dynip.com (1:167/133) .