[50mhz] W5ZF comments

[Chris Boone]

Correction,
A dipole is 2.15dbi....not 2.8db 

Chris
WB5ITT
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> 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.
>