"jim rozen" wrote in message
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In article , Robert Swinney says...

Ed,
You're on it like a cheap suit! A ground plane must have an area at
least
1/4 lambda ^2 to be effective.

Umm. It won't be a resonant antenna. But the car's body
will improve the signal seen at the input to the radio.

Maybe, maybe not. You may be defeating signal strength, since the "ground
plane" doesn't really function as a ground plane.


It doesn't *have* to be a resonant system for the antenna
to work.

True enough, but the effect of a small ground plane may or may not be
helpful.

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Ed Huntress