Re: I have antennas on my head

Jack Twilley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> >>>>> "Mike" == Mike Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

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> Mike> I've also seen more than a few folks put a GPS antenna inside a
> Mike> hat or cap, so that the only thing showing is the lead down to
> Mike> the GPS.

> I wanted to do this, but the woman of the moment imposed her fashion
> veto.  I settled for mounting the antenna on the top of my backpack,
> and it worked fine and didn't scare the children.

> Mike> It takes _all_ kinds, as the saying runs.

> D'accord.

But ... but if you put it on your backpack, then it winds up looking 
like one of the backpack GPSen from the Ashtech or Trimble catalog!
Where's the fun in _that_?

Now, if you mount one of the high-$, high-precision Trimble or Ashtech 
GPS antennas, complete with planar choke-ring array, on or under your 
hat, _that_ qualifies as well out on the tinfoil-hat axis. I wonder if
my Garmin 76 will talk to one of those, and where I can get one cheap.

-- 
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two characters the best part of an hour to say "Oh! Hello!" to each other. At
that point I turned it off, even though I was in grave danger of missing the
first five or six minutes of "How're you doing?" -- Dave Brown