"Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise." ?
On Sunday, January 3, 2021, 8:13:49 PM MST, Hank via Elecraft
<[email protected]> wrote:
Is there a Loudenboomer III??? I must go buy it - I only have a Loundenboomer
II!
> On Jan 3, 2021, at 7:07 PM, Fred Jensen <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Maxwell assured us that, if you get RF current to flow in a conductor that
> isn't buried deeply, it will radiate. The the direction(s) of that radiation
> may not be where you wish, but it will radiate. This weakend, I made 127
> QSO's in the ARRL RTTY Round-Up on 15, 20, 40, and 80 with 100W [K3] to a
> HOA-stealthy WOOF antenna [Wire On Organic Fence: 41 m, end-fed, 1.8 m AGL].
>
> I have noticed since the days when you built your TX from parts scarfed from
> old TV sets:
>
> 1. Newer hams seem to believe that there is one "perfect" way to build an
> antenna or use your radios and anything else will fail;
>
> 2. Newer hams, and some of the older ones, like to connect every possible
> accessory and every possible computer/software product to their radios;
>
> 3. And when that doesn't work, the first question to the email list members
> is, "My Loudenboomer III won't key. Any ideas what's wrong?" Somehow, the
> art of isolating the pieces, such as, "disconnect the keyer/computer/software
> and plug in a hand key -- or short the key line -- does it key now?" has been
> lost in a sea of technology no one understands.
>
> If the best of forecasts for Cycle 25 materialize, you will be able to repeat
> the late 50's/early 60's and work the world on 10 m 24/7 with 15 W to the
> window screen. Happy New Year to all, activate safely.
>
> 73,
>
> Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
> Sparks NV DM09dn
> Washoe County
>
>> On 1/3/2021 2:39 PM, Joseph Shuman via Elecraft wrote:
>> I simply like the challenge of making contacts with antennas, in the opinion
>> of the more learned, “that won’t work.” I have been told to “Read the
>> antenna book” because my experiments are “illogical.” I guess I have to
>> delete the contact I made using a chicken wire antenna? Let’s all remember
>> that Maxwell, Marconi, Hertz, Popov, Bose, Hughes and Fr. Roberto Landell de
>> Moura did not have the internet or the Antenna Book. They had each other.
>>
>> Joe Shuman, NZ8P
>>
>
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