Previous mentions of using slinky toys as antennas, and they are helical in form, caused me to ask my consultant where I could find a slinky. She was certain that Walgreens would always have slinkies as kind of a standard item, so there I was walking up and down the toy aisle again and again. Then I spotted the little Slinky boxes, but darn the cheap life we have in the devalued world…. they were plastic!
On the way out I spoke with the very pleasant attendant and she was up on her shelf knowledge, and knew they were plastic. She thinks the “bigger” department stores will have metal slinkys.
Once I have them, I’m stretching a group of four of them 10-feet top to bottom in a helical cage monopole design. That should carry this station into the fame it deserves.
Cheap Solutions To Cheap Problems
Well you could get the plastic slinky and wrap it up in aluminum foil…after all the aluminum foil trick always worked for those pesky rabbit ears. 😀
RFB
Rabbit Abuse
Why would you wrap a rabbit in aluminum foil?
Wacky Wabbit Ways
“Why would you wrap a rabbit in aluminum foil?”
Didn’t you know…it is in the top 10 ways to wap a wasky wabbit in Elmer Fudd’s new book Wonderful Ways Wapping A Wabbit. 😉
RFB