Wedding ring/ 9C Radio Case Causes Glitching
It's not really all tat surprising, actually. You are introducing an electrical element into the antenna (or case, as the case may be), and causing all kinds of wierd thinga to happen to the transmitted signal. When I'm tuning a radio I routinely use my finger to probe around and find sweet spots. I figure my finger is about 100pF. I can shift gain curves, cause or cure random oscillations, all kinds of neet stuff.
BTW, I hope I'm not talking out of school here, but the girl that MHawker is getting ready to marry is the one that climbed up a 75-100 foot tree and rescued his brand new Extra that I put up there the day before. It was in the VERY top, and she got it down UNSCRATCHED. The prop wasn't even broken.
Plus she's funny.
Frank