Someone tested the pringles can antenna (informally) against several
other antennas (some professional, some home made) and found that the
pringles can was no better than a lucent omnidirectional antenna.  They
had a few other 'can' antennas and found one that outperformed the
pringles can significantly.  Apparantly whoever put the pringles can
instructions on the net didn't understand antenna design thoroughly.
 Probably a lot better than I do, though... ;-)

-Adam

Dale Botkin wrote:

>On Sat, 9 Mar 2002, Jinx wrote:
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>>>Really though, this is a very serious security issue.  Wireless
>>>networks everywhere are unprotected
>>>
>>And the BBC helpfully provides a constructor's link
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>It ain't rocket science, after all...  any ham could figure it out, it's
>really a very basic gain antenna.  Directions for this and many many more
>can be found almost anywhere, scalable to almost any frequency range of
>interest.
>
>Dale
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