[TowerTalk] Truth, Fiction, or Fantasy?

[n1bkb at aol.com]

 Some years ago, I bought a BuddiPole antenna and used it VERY successfully for my personal, vacation style, DXpedition as V25SB.  At just under 4-lbs folding up into a 14" x 9" x 3" canvas bag, it served me well on 40m thru 6m.  It's also good for 2m but I did not access that band on that trip.  Only issue ... tuning is touchy and will take a few minutes to get a 1.2:1 or better SWR (and I used a hand-held antenna analyzer to simplify that process) but once it was set for the band, results were super!
Steve
N1BKB
 
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Fatchett <w0mu at w0mu.com>
To: towertalk at contesting.com
Sent: Tue, Apr 26, 2022 3:15 pm
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Truth, Fiction, or Fantasy?

I am subscribed to the POTA parks on the air Facebook page.  If one 
person post that has a good outing and says that X antenna is best then 
a bunch of people follow right along and will just build it or buy 
whatever the antenna of the day is.  Wind River Coils or antennas has 
got rich off the POTA gang and I see most of them setting up with the 
coil right next to the ground and they think it is great.    You really 
can't even educate these folks.   Any antenna is better than no 
antenna.  Then the complain about having lousy success running QRP with 
completely compromised antennas. To each their own.

W0MU

On 4/26/2022 2:00 PM, Gene Smar via TowerTalk wrote:
>  IMHO, antennas are all FM.
>
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> 73 deGene Smar  AD3F
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: JC <johnk0gcj at gmail.com>
> To: jim at audiosystemsgroup.com
> Cc: towertalk at contesting.com
> Sent: Tue, Apr 26, 2022 3:08 pm
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Truth, Fiction, or Fantasy?
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> I think 10% is quite high. I certainly don't, although I can build and
> erect antennas that work. Actually,
> I don't think anyone understands antenna technology. Black magic is
> involved and requires sorcerers
> and involves incantations to which only a privileged few are allowed access.
>
> John K0GCJ
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>
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> On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 1:53 PM Jim Brown <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote:
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>> On 4/26/2022 11:44 AM, Edward Mccann via TowerTalk wrote:
>>>    “The Joe Hams of this world . . . where currently 60% of them seem to
>> be quite happy with an EFHW antenna, 30% with an EFRW (Random Wire)
>> antenna, and 10% understand antenna technology.”
>>
>> The mind boggles.
>>
>> 73, Jim K9YC
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