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Bruce Bruce is offline
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Default Emergency radio aeriel

(Don Pearce) wrote in
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On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:17:48 GMT, Bruce wrote:

You're way off. In english measurements, the approximation for a 1/4
wave antenna is 234/f(MHz) = feet. So for 860.9MHz the length would be
0.27 feet or 3.26 inches, which is 1.28cm.


Make that 8.5cm. 1.28cm is about half an inch.

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Thanks...Must remind myself not to do math after a 4AM load-in....