[TenTec] OT: Indoor antenna

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-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Atkinson <ranchorobbo at gmail.com>
To: tentec at contesting.com
Sent: Mon, Nov 29, 2010 2:54 pm
Subject: Re: [TenTec] OT: Indoor antenna


I think it is a real shame that things have reached the point where we

hams have to put up these sneak antennas, as if we are doing something

illegal, or operating spy stations in enemy terretory.



The ham magazines just about every month run articles about hams who

are so happy with their hidden stealth antennas which I believe only

gives lawyers more evidence to use in court when they are going after

some poor ham who has dared to put up a decent antenna and his town is

going after him to get it down.



If you have a high profile dipole way up in the air and you are happy

and you wind up in court and the other side lays out all these

magazine articles about how this or that ham got WAS with his secret

night time telescoping antenna or hidden wire under his eaves, or

closet slinky and how he's just delighted working everything he can

hear, he's going to have a hard time convincing a non-technical judge

that those antennas are unsatisfactory and his high dipole, or quad,

or beam are really needed.



If a ham has to get by with a stealth antenna okay, but the magazines

(CQ, QST and Electric Radio as far as I know) ought not to portray

these antennas as highly satisfying.



my opinion and worth what you paid for it.



Rob

K5UJ

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