On 11/20/2011 5:58 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Some people would rather play with antennas than get on the air, if that's > their thing go for it. ME I would rather get on the air and work stations. > I just let my auto tuner make the rig happy losses on 160 are not that high. > But then I remember a time when I needed a station on 24 Mhz so I made up a > Dipole on the shack floor and climbed up to the 60 ft level of my tower in > a snow storm and installed it as a sloped dipole. " worked him on the > first call" I couldn't believe it !! > ED K8OT > > > In a message dated 11/19/2011 10:45:55 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, > [email protected] writes: > > In a message dated 11/19/2011 2:00:52 P.M. Central Standard Time, > [email protected] writes: > > K2AV<[email protected] > > > You know Guy, your diatribes are a sure cure for insomnia. I have a buddy > who sez "Stop measuring everything, tune up, and work 'em." I think at > times he's right.... and yet I like to measure things. > > As for your subject, it's a moot point. Apparently a lot of others prefer > to play your game rather than just "tune up and work 'em." > > But it's taking up a lot of band width for no apparent reason. The > moderator has been very lenient for some reason I don't understand. > That's his > choice. Guess he wants everyone to have their say, even if it is boring > and > doesn't change what they have to work with in their back yard. > > I prefer to read the classics on the subject that have the most to do > with > what is important to Hams that want to work DX on 160... like G3HRH,”The > Ground Beneath Us,” RSGB June, 1966, pp.375-385, or perhaps G.H. Brown, “ > The Phase and Magnitude of Earth Currents Near Radio Transmitting > Antennas,” > Proc. Of the IRE, February 1935, Volume 23, Number 2, or what you have > been quoting, Brown, R.F. Lewis,& J. Epstein, “Ground Systems as a > Factor in > Antenna Efficiency,” Proceedings Of the IRE, June, 1937, Volume 25, > Number > 6. > > Nothing much else has clarified the issues lately other than the work of > A.C. Doty Jr., J.A. Frey,& H.J. Mills, “Efficient Ground Systems for > Vertical Antennas, ”QST, Feb., 1983 and R. Severns, “Experimental > Determination > of Ground System Performance for HF Verticals,”QEX, Jan/Feb 2009 through > Jan/Feb 2010. > > After wading through those, any Ham should be able to make their own good > decisions as to the compromises they want to make in their own stations. > In > my own humble opinion, any further discussion is a waste of cyberspace. > Thanks for your great concern for everyone's success, Guy. Now why don't > you > just tune up and work 'em? > > 73, best DX, Barry > > > > _______________________________________________ > UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK > _______________________________________________ > UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
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