Alt-BEAM Archive

Message #07336



To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Bob Shannon bshannon@tiac.net
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 1999 07:09:21 -0500
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: directional antenna?




"Van Zoelen, Bram AA SSI-TSEA-352" wrote:

> An unidirectional antenna would be something like a wire straight up.
> Just think about a car antenna. That's a uni-directional antenna.

Ahh, thats an omnidirectional antenna.

For some good ideas on radio direction finding, I reccomend the book 'Hidden
Transmitter Hunting Made Easy', published by the American Radio Relay League.
The show a fairlt simple dopper based direction finding system that is very
good, but its a little complex. This book also covers simpler systems that are
more BEAM-like.

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