Second Tom's post, but methinks though gentlemanly, Tom's use of
"pathological" is too kind. Snake oil has been around for a long time,
AND has those who swear by it.
Snake oil salesmen just don't care. They know it's junk. They just want
your buck.
I've not seen anything to indicate ham radio is genetically immune to
snake oil. There's them that make good antennas and there's them that
make junk. All of them are shiny when they're new, and it's easy to make
a dummy load that looks like an antenna and has a pattern and a low SWR.
Caveat Emptor. And some new "products" DESERVE to be killed, crippled,
whatever.
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73, Guy
k2av@contesting.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Rauch" <w8ji@akorn.net>
To: <Towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 10:57 AM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Log Periodic Antenna recommendation?
>
> > M2, Raibeam, Antenna Mart and many others deserve your business who
sell
> > great products and I'd support them. New and effective designs are
bad
> > mouthed for long periods of time until competent evaluators give it
a
> > clean bill of health. Large sums of money and time can be invested
in a
> > new product and killed or sales crippled by the "Army of the
Performance
> > Misinformed" and does a lot of damage unfortunately without
recourse.
>
> There certainly is a lot of unusual antenna science!
>
....
> The common excuse is there is something "special" going on that
> just can't be explained, and that models won't even show how well
> the antenna really works. That's a warning sign of pathological
> science at work!
> 73, Tom W8JI
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