I agree with Bob. I think the name BOG is firmly entrenched, whatever the electrical differences. Oh, I could propose a new name, but I doubt it would ever stick.
I'll go back to my Otter/Platypus to propose a parable: Suppose that the Platypus had instead gotten the name of Duckfaced Otter, and that was firmly entrenched in the language regardless of the science placing the Duckfaced in a different Latin-worded species. Then on a reflector, an argument crops up, someone says that the Duckfaced Otter lays eggs. Others deride that statement, saying everyone knows that an Otter is a mammal, that mammals give live birth and Otters do not lay eggs. Some, quite irritated, ask wouldn't the Duckfaced Otter have been named differently if it was really that different? Probably because it was named centuries before people knew it laid eggs. In the science, the egg-laying, out of many differences, all by itself would put the Duckfaced Otter into a different species, because such differences are what define different species. Overall, most already know that the Duckfaced Otter only *looks* like an otter, really isn't. But they still call it the Duckfaced Otter because that's what the language calls it. Who among us ever gets to successfully take on the language? ---End of Parable--- Beverage Otter On-ground Beverage Duckfaced Otter Both are a longish Both have brown wire parallel to earth, water repellent fur coat. only used for RX. and love the water. Isn't it really about time that the masses on the reflectors know that a BOG has irritating issues that no up-in-the-air beverage has to design around, but must be taken into account designing a BOG? That any Beverage strategy has to be analyzed laying on the ground to see if it really applies to a BOG? The antenna category is Ground Low Velocity Factor. The short for that could be GLVF, except we already call those -on-ground or OG. Dipole on Ground is a DOG, Loop on Ground is a LOG, Beverage on ground is a BOG. In this system "Beverage" is only one possible shape of the wire laying on the ground. How a BOG behaves and how to engineer/model one is really only one application of how OG behaves and how to engineer OG. I think OG is just fine. I don't think OG needs a new name. Just remember that BOG is only one shape instance of OG, and OG controls the engineering. 73, Guy K2AV On Mon, Dec 2, 2019 at 6:38 PM Chortek, Robert L. < [email protected]> wrote: > I don’t think it matters what label we use as long as we correctly > understand its electrical properties..... > > AA6VB > > Bob > Robert L. Chortek > > > On Dec 2, 2019, at 3:13 PM, Mike Smith VE9AA <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > [External Email] > > > > K2AV says ".BOG is not a Beverage. So don't think about or treat a BOG > like > > a Beverage." > > > > <snip> > > > > > > > > > > > > You seem pretty adamant about that Guy. > > > > What *SHOULD* we be calling it then please? > > > > > > > > Mike VE9AA > > > > > > > > Keswick Ridge, NB > > > > > > > > _________________ > > Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband > Reflector > _________________ > Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband > Reflector > _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
