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Default Emergency radio aeriel

On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:21:41 -0000, "Gareth Magennis"
wrote:

Sorry, I was a bit preature on that one.



New question: I thought I had a faulty aeriel on an IEM receiver. I have
substituted a piece of wire 34.8cm long, since by my calculation of V = FL,
this is the wavelength of the transmitting frequency of 860.900 MHz.. The
receiver still has crap reception. I take it this should work as a good
aeriel?

Try halving that length - half wave is the normal aerial length. But
what about the location? Is this thing up in the clear where it is
likely to get a good signal? More to the point, has it just stopped
working, or is this the first time you have used it in this location?

d

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