[50mhz] W5ZF comments

[J. Gordon Beattie, Jr., W2TTT]

Bud,
So one of the benefits of living to an old age is that you can avoid
conflicts by picking topics that no young people care about?
:-)
73,
Gordon Beattie 
w2ttt at arrl.net
201.314.6964
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Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 12:52 PM
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Subject: [50mhz] W5ZF comments

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
Moderator: Ray Brown, KB0STN
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