On 11/20/2011 5:58 PM, Gedking@aol.com 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,
> 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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