Another option for bird control is to get one of the plastic owls and put him
up on the tribander.
My results were negative, evidently the birds in our area aren't scared of owls
because the owl didn't help at all.
When i took it down I discovered the birds had crapped all over it. :-)
Bob
K6UJ
On Dec 28, 2012, at 8:59 PM, Jim Lux wrote:
> On 12/28/12 8:15 PM, Charlie Gallo wrote:
>>
>> On 12/28/2012 Jim Lux wrote:
>>
>> ...snip...
>>
>>> Yes, but typically one side is fairly conductive (the side with the
>>> aluminum), and if you do something like tie it onto your antenna, it
>>> will couple quite nicely by capacitance, if not direct contact.
>>
>> That is ASSUMING you are talking about aluminized mylar. Mylar is nothing
>> more than sheet polyester, and is NOT always aluminized. In fact, you can
>> get it clear, as well as other non metallic colors. Basically we most
>> commonly run into the metalized versions, but that is not always the case,
>> so as I said, "it depends". Aluminized mylar = conductive (duh - aluminum),
>> NON metalized mylar = insulator
>>
>>
>
> the reflective ribbon stuff for birds is almost certainly aluminized...
>
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