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Spray on Antennae

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Spray on Antennae

Throw this in your survival kit or paint your plane with it.

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Re: Spray on Antennae

I've been in the 2-way radio buisness for over 30 years, and this is about the wildest scam product I've seen yet. [-X what's a polite way to say B.S.
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Not sure I am quite ready to yell scam yet.... BUT
When he says go up to a cop car and feel the heat off the antenna....
WELL... done that to countless antennas on cars, boats, planes, helicopters, and they aren't hot to the touch. Have had some RF burns from an HF transmitter that had high VSWR though.
The conductive paint idea has been around since the 70's. We sprayed it inside Apple computers to keep the RF out.
Maybe this stuff is different. Hope he got some patent lawyers involved if it is indeed magic. Otherwise it will be stolen for sure. Can you spell MADE in CHINA
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Is this like the gizmo you hook to your TV to turn all the wiring in your house into a giant TV antenna?
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The gizmo you hook to your TV to turn all the wiring in your house into an antenna was nothing more than a capacitor, they actually worked very well if your house wiring wasn't grounded. The elecricly conductive paint inside computor cases was a spray-on resistor, I still see it all the time in radios and can buy it in spray cans, but it does not radiate, it is only a resistive connection to ground.
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TIME will tell if this product is nothing more than BS. Since I have been working on radios and transmitters for over 50 years, and have held an FCC radio license for over 47 years, this guy's dog and pony show sounds like a snake oil presentation.
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