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,
W9UCW@aol.com writes:
In a message dated 11/19/2011 2:00:52 P.M. Central Standard Time,
topband-request@contesting.com writes:
K2AV <olinger@bellsouth.net
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
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