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Re: Antenna design

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Originally Posted by DRH2o View Post
We used Orange Fiberglas arrows ($3.00 each at Dick's Sporting Goods) with two different color fletchings. We cut the points off and epoxied to door stop springs ($1.50 for two at Lowe's). They work great!!
Here's some photos we snapped of 1598's flag implementation at VADOS. Looks great to us!

2363's flag solution really suffered when it got battered by the low bar. At our most recent event (VAPOR), about 14% of all our recorded pit activity went towards flag maintenance/repair, mostly in <5 person*minute chunks. Our drivers really liked having them though.
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