[Antennas] Why does this list exist

[Bob Wilder]

Have been reading the last two days of comments about antennas and wonder 
why this list
exists.  Seems to me that there is always room for each of us to help those 
who do not
know all the answers, to get information out that will increase the overall 
knowledge
base of the amateur radio community.  Until I retired from teaching, I 
taught basic
electronics at a two year college and at one time did teach about a year of 
antenna theory
and found that I was always learning.  From the very first days of my 
amateur radio
experience I have always be fascinated with antennas.  When someone says 
that the theory
tells them that a configuration will not work, I am one who will try to 
find a way to
make it work.  Being brought up in military communications as both an 
operator and
maintenance technician, I have found that the old policy of the military of 
maximum
power into short antennas is not the right way to go.  Currently I have 
gone to a
250 foot closed horizontal loop and find that it works even though I am 
restricted
to low (30 Feet) heights.

I guess what I am trying to say is, quit taking on those who want to try, and
act your age and finally believe that there are others who know more than 
you do.

A PHD or MS in engineering does not equate to knowledge, but only memory of 
someone
else's ideas to the point of passing an exam.

Bob Wilder, AF2HD/AFA2HD
6032 Idlemoore Court
Theodore, AL 36582-4117
251-653-5274
http://home.earthlink.net/~bwild
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