[ale] OT: 802.11b antenna project

[D. Alan Stewart]

Ha ha! Very good... If I weren't having trouble keeping up with my day 
job, the renovation, and still have a social life. I would just do it 
myself. But I'm short on time and energy these days.

Joe wrote:

>"D. Alan Stewart" <astewart at layton-graphics.com> writes:
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>>I have seen all the stuff on the Internet about making cheap
>>directional antennas with a tin can and other pieces. But I'm a
>>software developer, not a hardware geek! I don't know which end of the
>>soldering iron to hold.
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>There's an easy solution to that particular problem. It's sort of a
>human autonomic nervous system hack. Plug in a soldering iron, let it
>heat up, and then pick it up by one end, choosing the end at random
>(perhaps by grabbing bits out of /dev/urandom).  Repeat several times.
>If you're smart enough to develop software, then it's nearly certain
>that eventually, you will figure out which end is the correct one :-)
>
>Cheers,
>
>-- Joe Knapka
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