[TenTec] SWR is a DUMB Indicator of Antenna Performance

[Richards]

Bravo!

Ask Rick DJ0IP to send you a copy of Prof Cebik's rant on atnenna 
marketing.  It is priceless.


And... I can safely and honestly say,
"I have HEARD everyone I have WORKED on my antennas..."       :-)

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On 9/15/2014 11:40 AM, Jim Allen wrote:
> Bob wrote:
>
>
> *It seems that here we fall largely to the victim of verbal semantics.*
> I thought you were going to rant about the marketing of antennas in
> advertising.
>
> I have long considered the ads and accompanying breathless "reviews" of
> antenna products as the biggest swindle in amateur radio, one reason I
> resist store bought antennas.  It is identical to what I've seen in
> Bicycling Magazine and SCUBA, too, with names changed to protect the
> guilty.
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