Car antennas

[Garrett Wollman]

<<On Mon, 10 May 2010 23:08:17 -0400, "Mario Gonzalez Jr." <mariogonz@aol.com> said:

> We just purchased a 2009 Saturn Aura.  The antenna is located on the 
> roof.  I'm surprised that even with a small antenna, the reception is 
> fine on AM, FM and XM.

I believe these are fractal antennas -- similar to the ones in modern
cell phones, but designed for higher bandwidth (since they need to do
twelve octaves, whereas cell-phone antennas only need to get two).

-GAWollman