> How much does it cost to make a Pringles can antenna?
> Given your labor cost at $6.25 / hour?

How much time will you spend researching vendor solutions? On the ordering
process? Going to Airborne to pick up the package because they got the city
wrong?

> How much does a comercially available antenna with equal or better
> performance cost?

ca. $75-150 USD

> How long will a pringles can antenna work mounted on the roof in the
> weather?
> How long will a comparable comercially available antenna with equal or
> better perfoemance last in the elements?


You can put your pringles can antenna in a PVC enclosure.

> I like the Pringles thing, I have seen several successful 
> projects but I
> have just wondered about the economics...

No pain, no gain. :-)

> Also It's tough to explain to a business customer why they 
> should have alot
> of confidence in what appears to be trash.

Go buy some rub-on lettering and put PCA-1000 on the PVC enclosure. There,
you've turn trash into margin.

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