Subj : Re: Antenna
To   : TOM WALKER
From : MIKE ROSS
Date : Thu Jul 07 2005 03:17 pm

"TOM WALKER" bravely wrote to "MIKE ROSS" (07 Jul 05  07:46:00)
 --- on the heady topic of "Re: Antenna"

 TW> But in a hand held it is nothing more then a common circuit card trace
 TW> typicaly. And since it is a handheld it is floating. Isin't that about
 TW> the equilivent of NO ground?
 TW> Which you have pointed out can be somewhat made up for by Reciever
 TW> gain.

But there is a ground: the operator's body is one plate of a capacitor
which forms the counterpoise or ground radial.

 M*i*k*e

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