[BC] Car Radio Antennas

[Rich Wood]

------ At 09:28 AM 1/24/2008, Bob Young wrote: -------

>Hey, this infringes upon my idea of 50 ft high retractable rooftop 
>car stacked yagis for FM IBOC reception for when you just have to 
>receive the station beyond the 10- 20 mile fringe IBOC area, another 
>idea is unidirectional retractable rotating AM antennas for when you 
>just have to listen to your hometown AM when it's next to an IBOC 
>AMer at night,

You'll need some kind of positioning system to control the rotator to 
keep the antennas pointed in the right direction as you drive. 
Wouldn't the AM antenna increase the IBUZ interference along with the 
station you used to be able to receive?

Your call indicates you're in the Northeast. How would the antennas 
fit under all the low bridges? You'd have to stop, lower the 
antennas, go under the bridge, then raise them, again. My hometown 
has so many low bridges that they'd have to add you to the high 
trucks that shear off the top of their trailers every few days.

It seems there's always a downside to whizbang technologies.

Rich