Re the questionable (or inaccurate) claim recited about using low VF coax to
shorten radials in some of W6SAI's books - Orr doesn't actually state that as
fact but rather reports it as what other's have done -- he typically adds
some jocular verbiage about "trying this for yourself". I was always a big
fan
of Bill Orr and he did have academic engineering credentials, but his books
- especially the last 3, were a lot more casually written in both style and
content. I think his point was ham radio wasn't meant to be rocket science..
That said one has to be especially appreciative of ON4UN's books which are
precise to the point of be a bit out of range of many of us to execute to.
But as he notes in the Low Band editions - he sets the objective standard and
to me that lets me know that much better the impact of the comprimises I need
to take - and to learn...
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