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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Mounting 2M Xcvr in '05 Toyota Camry (KC2MMI (Jared))
2. Re: Re: Mounting 2M Xcvr in '05 Toyota Camry (bob evinger)
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 13:36:37 -0400
From: "KC2MMI \(Jared\)" <kc2mmi_at_verizon.net>
Subject: [aprssig] Re: Mounting 2M Xcvr in '05 Toyota Camry
"my new 2006 Jetta TDI has an antenna embedded in the rear window. Somehow
they are utilizing the defogger grid in the rear window as "
You may remember GM went to using a dipole wire in the front windshield in
the 70's models. This was to show how advanced and sleek they were and
supposedly car-wash and vandal-proof as well. There was some talk that
internally it was also more PROFITABLE, less wiring and less body
installation work to do. GM scrapped the idea shortly after because they
in-glass antennas just don't work well in Kansas and other places with weak
signals. No doubt VW is trying the same thing for the same reasons--sleek,
modern, vandal-proof, PROFITABLE, but it is going to have the same
weaknesses, same directional issues. With AM radio going away and XM
becoming more popular...maybe they'll get away with it this time.
But most everything a car company can do boils down to profit, save a dime
on a million cars and you've made a nice bonus. Technology is a faint #2 to
that. I'd like to make a million dimes this year too!
Remember too that the antenna on a car is designed with only rx in mind,
locations for an even tx pattern will put a totally different priority on
tx antenna positions.
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 12:53:18 -0500 (CDT)
From: bob evinger <wd9eka_at_evinger.com>
Subject: Re: [aprssig] Re: Mounting 2M Xcvr in '05 Toyota Camry
A lot of the HOnda models have an inglass antenna in the rear window as
well. I like them, it gives me more roof space to mount ham antennas :)
bob
Bob Evinger EMT-I WD9EKA/AAR5MG(Army MARS operator)
The twisties - not the superslabs - seperate the riders from the squids
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