AMEN AMEN........
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> From: Garry & Yelena <ni6t@best.com>
> To: Topband Reflector <topband@contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: TopBand: Slinky
To: <topband@contesting.com>
> Date: Monday, August 04, 1997 11:39 PM
>
> Dan Flaig,K8RF wrote:
> >
>
> > If you are so worried about analyzing these antennas why don't you buy a
> > couple of slinkys and test them out instead of making all of us read
> > your unhelpfull know-it-all attitude?
> > I am ready to unsubscibe to the relector cause I tired of reading all
> > this hot air.
> > Results speak for themselves,I'll go along with the guy who's got 250+
> > DXCC topband cards over twenty guys with calulators anyday.
> > 73
> > Dan K8RF
> >
> Dan,
>
> I respectfully suggest that you have it backwards.
>
> This hobby drowns in hoary shibboleths, folklore, misinformation---and a
> deep-rooted mistrust of anything smacking of--Marconi
> forbid--mathematics. Add to this the egocentrism and the absolute,
> pathological need to have the last word in these "technical"
> quarrels--not arguments-- and you have the typical reflector "technical"
> discussion. Excuse me, but I LIKE real technical discussions; I DON'T
> like the namecalling, personal invective and pomposity that we usually
> get, instead. The use of logic, analysis and measurement in pursuit of
> understanding hardly disqualifies he who uses these tools.
>
> The "guy who's got 250+ DXCC topband cards" happens to perch on a New
> Hampshire hilltop, which just might have contributed something to his
> operating success on top, and which, IMHO, has nothing to do with the
> analysis--or lack of same--of his receiving antennas, and which does not
> justify one ounce of the vitriol he slings here and on the Amps
> reflector.
>
> But, if you really like the personal-confrontation-and-attack type of
> discussion, you ought to sign up for the Amps Reflector---a cyber
> tag-team match with more posturing than a Pro Wrestling championship
> event.
>
> It is a damned shame that, eventually, those who really have meaningful
> contributions to make to these discussions are driven away.
>
> --
> Garry Shapiro, NI6T
> Visit the Northern California DX Club home page:
> http://www.ncdxc.org
>
>
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