Subj : Re: barbed wire telephony
To   : Spectre
From : hyjinx
Date : Sun Jun 05 2022 15:47:11

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

Yep, it was the same in the UK, at least back then. I didn't use it for very
long, as I moved house, but I probably got 3 months use out of two of them.
The first one was destroyed by shitty weather. They weren't exactly long term
solutions! The fact that they worked at all was the real boon. The next node
to me was very close at the time (I think 120 metres line of sight), so the
signal to noise ratio was still within acceptable limits.

Cheers,
Al


hyjinx // Alistair Ross
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