[Elecraft] Really OT: Inside-the-vehicle HF antennas (possible bonus points)

[Lyle Johnson]

In my Model S all AM/FM broadcast reception antennas are hidden in the 
driver-side mirror housing.

I suggest you simply make a physically small antenna that can fit under 
some plastic part of your car.   Wayne has a Prius so it is mostly 
plastic bodywork providing lots of opportunities.

Then insert the small antenna into a very low loss, extremely high-k 
dielectric to make the physically small antenna electrically resonant at 
the desired frequency.  If it works, patent the dielectric material!

You can then encase a typical satellite TV dish in the same dielectric 
and have a very directional HF beam and get around all the HOA problems 
for those who operate radio while NOT in their car :-)

Air as a dielectric is so 20th century...

73,

Lyle KK7P