Great humor, Hisashi!!!! Isn't it just so? So many years, so much experience, but the operations matter so much more. With my KX3 I am hauling out all my old self-made antennas, including a super flex multiband dipole in a 35 mm camera film can. Love to play.
73, Bill K9YEQ -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Hisashi T Fujinaka Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2012 7:10 PM To: David Gilbert Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OCF antennas I went to MIT. I can analyze the crap out of this if I feel like it. Or I can work DX and ragchew. Like I said, you use the hobby for what you want and I'm a proponent of the proverb that says, "Perfect is the enemy of the good." On Sat, 10 Mar 2012, David Gilbert wrote: > > Ham radio being a knowledge-based hobby, some people prefer to > understand what they're doing. Apparently others don't seem to care. > > Dave AB7E > > > > On 3/9/2012 9:49 PM, Hisashi T Fujinaka wrote: >> So let me say one thing I know about antennas: >> >> PUT SOMETHING UP AND GET ON THE AIR. >> >> You can get perfect up, and you can get OK up. You an argue about >> what works better and what works worse. But when the bands are open, >> you might be able to work DX with a cantenna under your desk. (I've >> heard >> stories.) >> >> I used an untuned dipole with a LDG tuner to work my first (and only) >> DXCC back in the last sunspot cycle. >> >> So what I'm saying is put something up FIRST and then start the >> arguing, I mean, discussion. >> >> (But then again there are all sorts of aspects to the hobby and if >> you're here to argue you can if you want.) >> > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email > list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > -- Hisashi T Fujinaka - [email protected] BSEE(6/86) + BSChem(3/95) + BAEnglish(8/95) + MSCS(8/03) + $2.50 = latte ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
