log periodics are cool, they maintain gain and pattern across the widest bandspread of any antenna type. like, you know, a TV antenna....

Talking like could get you tried for witchcraft in some states. Its all round safer to stick with a Hertzian dipole.

as far as i know, all types of antennas are basically legal. exceptions might be if you are transmitting with it and you exceed maximum legal emissions or else uninformed local laws.

Surely such black arts as the Log periodic are banned in all civilized countries?

From the original link I do like their description of war drivers:

"Fake AP confuses Wardrivers, NetStumblers, Script Kiddies, and other undesirables."

So I'm undesirable. Well now I finally understand why she left me. [/i]

Also, related to the article the county sheriff is quoted as saying "cantennas" (famous pringles antennas) are ilegal :roll: Are dishes and helix's legal is it only waveguide antennas that are banned? Or is it the "pringles" aspect of the device that makes it such a danger to th...

Its an interesting thought. Adding a signal strength meter to a GPS, (which is essentially what war driving boils down to.) enables quite complex signal paths to be mapped. With a little ingenuity the technique could be adapted to any RF signal. I'm tempted to have a play with a scanner, gps and my ...

Ha! Missed that link, thanks.

Just curious as I was thinking about various modes of transport for war driving the other day and I was wondering as to what altitude you have to fly at to log networks from an aircraft? i.e. are you skimming roof tops?

Hi, I get around the S.E. of england a bit. Been war driving in Sussex a couple of times.