[50mhz] W5ZF comments

[mweisbergs at juno.com]

Bravo, Stan - your memory is better than you're giving yourself credit
for. dbi may be of use to antenna engineers but its use in ham dialogue
is confusing at best. Yeah, the dipole has 2.8 db gain over the
non-existant isotropic but has unity gain when regarded as the reference.
It seems that antenna discussions bring out the exuberent imagination in
folks; so much so that the ARRL has, for quite some time, prohibited gain
claims in the antenna display ads in QST.

Growing old isn't so bad... at least when you refer to something in the
dark past, there are few around to dispute it!

Bud K2YOF