[ale] OT: 802.11b antenna project

[Joe]

"D. Alan Stewart" <astewart at layton-graphics.com> writes:

> 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.

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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