{"id":1362,"date":"2006-08-17T02:05:39","date_gmt":"2006-08-16T20:05:39","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-08-17T06:39:39","modified_gmt":"2006-08-17T00:39:39","slug":"fryer-basket-antenna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/streetuse\/fryer-basket-antenna\/","title":{"rendered":"Fryer Basket Antenna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of low-tech household items have been used to boost wi-fi signals, starting with Pringle cans and upward. But none have been able to match the decibel gains offered by a Chinese fry basket. This off-the-shelf item seems ready-made to accompany a laptop as it seeks a good signal in the park. Or near a den window. It has a nearly perfect parabola shape, and a handy bamboo handle. A guy in New Zealand named <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usbwifi.orcon.net.nz\/\">Stan Swan<\/a>  has devoted a web site to perfecting the fry basket antenna, where this image comes from.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/Chinesefry.jpg\" height=\"485\" width=\"400\" border=\"1\" align=\"middle\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Chinesefry\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of low-tech household items have been used to boost wi-fi signals, starting with Pringle cans and upward. But none have been able to match the decibel gains offered by a Chinese fry basket. This off-the-shelf item seems ready-made to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/streetuse\/fryer-basket-antenna\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[90],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}