At 1/4/2005 05:33 AM, you wrote:
>Very well stated.
Agreed.
> Our county just bought such a trailer, and they put a man
>in charge of this unit that believes he knows everything about radio
>communications, to the point that he argued with me for nearly an hour when
>he told me that our Hustler G7 antenna at our local Ambulance Service was no
>good becuase he checked it with a continuity checker and it showed a dead
>short. (This was after a lightning storm fried the radio). As I tried to
>explained to him that it would show a short as that is the design of the
>antenna, he became so flustard that he ended the conversation with "That is
>the Wrong Antenna for This Radio", VHF Radio and a High Band VHF Antenna, 50
>Ohms, figure it out, but my Bird Watt Meter Was wrong, as well as my MFJ
>Analyzer, yet the antenna receives and transmits just fine.
Don't argue with the man. Tell him "Yup, you're right. Mind if I take
that bad antenna down & throw it away for you?"
;)
Bob
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