Subj : barbed wire telephony
To   : hyjinx
From : Spectre
Date : Sat Jun 04 2022 19:12:00

 hy> for my early internet access in Edinburgh. I set up a dipole antenna
 hy> with a pringles can and got reasonably good (say 128k in 1999/2000)
 hy> bandwidth, stealing it courtesy of some rebels at Edinburgh
 hy> University. This was in the days that even achieving 56K V90 was

Strickly speeking, the ol' pringles can be a waveguide antenna less I be
sadly 'staken.  Do you guys have different pringles containers to us?  Ours
are just cardboard tubes with a metal cap on one end, and lined with metallic
ink liner... nothing much to guide any wayward waves in... I messed around
with cans for a bit, and then gave it away in favour of kitchen equipment,
like the collander... got much better results.

We had a wireless group here.. but the problem tended to be geographical..
points were a long way apart, and you had to be reallly lucky to get line of
sight on anything.

Spec


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