>
>on 6/20/01 7:15 AM, teamw at teamw@quixnet.net wrote:
>
>> 1) I found this submission quite incredible. Why would anyone in their right
>> mind with a few dollars worth of wire in a dipole with its characteristic
>> narrow bandwidth spend hundreds of dollars to replace a good ATU with one to
>> handle the deficiency of the antenna?
>> For a few dollars the dipole could have been broadbanded. There are plenty
>> of examples in the ARRL Antenna book or some extra lengths of cheap wire to
>> make it into a cage type dipole.
/\ Yea, verily.
>> Another solution is to use parallel wires
>> cut to different freqs. in the same band.
>> Why do we just throw money at problems instead of using common sense?
>
>I take offense to this comment since I posted the original message.
>
/\ Operating coax at high SWRs is undoubtedly an engineering faux pas.
However, open wire line would work just fine
>1.) You have no idea what my dipole looks like. For your information it is
>a dipole with multiple lengths of wire cut for different bands. ...
/\ are the wires less than 60º apart?
>I really cannot add another set of wires to it nor do I have the space to add
another
>antenna.
>
>2.) For your information, I began having problems with the older tuner on
>multiple bands. The design of that tuner is really not for full legal limit
>plus head room. To have arcing starting to occur on a tuner in the middle
>of a run during a contest is not my idea of a good time (it happened). I
>prefer to operate with some margin built into my equipment. The old tuner
>is probably designed for 1000 to 1200 Watts or so.
>
>3.) Very simply - I WANTED TO. Why the hell not? If I decide I can afford
>it, then why not. Why do I drive a nice car that cost me over $30K US when
>I could drive a used piece o crap for $2000? Because I can and I like nice
>things.
>
>So I think your comment is snobbish and really full of you know what.
>
/\ There's always a tender nerve behind the bull's-eye
>73,
>
cheers, Jon
>
>-------------------------------------
>Jon Ogden
>NA9D (ex: KE9NA)
>
>Member: ARRL, AMSAT, DXCC, NRA
>
>http://www.qsl.net/ke9na
>
>"A life lived in fear is a life half lived."
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