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Old 08-04-2009, 04:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Einar72 View Post
My dad bought one in '62, the Siamese cat. I had hours of fun bobbing the head. It was a tan plastic molding with fuzzy stuff glued on the outside. I suspect they used a static charge to get the stuff to stick straight out. Inside was a red-painted 1-inch diameter dowel about 5" long. The whole antenna was just two 1x4 aluminum strips stapled to the dowel about two inches apart, with a 1/2-watt resistor and the twinlead riveted to both plates. Dad was disappointed with its performance.
Yeah, my 'dog' stinks as an antenna. Proper rabbit ears like the topic of this thread work much better.
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