[TenTec] 160 meters, ten ted 238 tuner, part two

[Phil Sussman]

Ah, Jim,

I wish that were so. Shocking, but true. After all yesterday I ran into a
ham and was showing him my HF mobile set-up. He remarked, "why do you need
an antenna when you can operate full duplex anywhere in the world with your
cell phone?"

Study? Who needs to study? Just use your cell phone! Gee .. I really wonder!

73 de Phil - N8PS

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Quoting Jim Brown <k9yc at audiosystemsgroup.com>:

> On 11/1/2013 9:11 AM, Rick - DJ0IP / NJ0IP wrote:
>> If someone jumps straight into RFI ham, I'm sure he'll get a shock,  
>> unless he is pretty tech savvy.
>
> Gee, I'm sorry to hear that. I tried very hard to write it for  
> someone who understood the basics of electronics, electrical  
> circuits, transmission lines, and antennas. Is that assumption  
> unreasonable?  And I've tried to write in a form that "tells the  
> story," leading logically from point A to point B to point C.
>
> There's also an important difference between casually reading  
> something as opposed to really studying it.  It took me years to  
> figure this stuff out, and I understood these fundamentals quite  
> well. Someone seeing these concepts for the first time should expect  
> to STUDY it, not just read it casually.
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
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