[Elecraft] OCF antennas (OT)

[Bob Nielsen]

That reminds me of a couple of sayings:

Good enough is perfect.

There comes a time in any project when you need to shoot the engineers and start production.

Bob N7XY

On Mar 10, 2012, at 5:10 PM, Hisashi T Fujinaka wrote:

> I went to MIT. I can analyze the crap out of this if I feel like it.
> 
> Or I can work DX and ragchew.
> 
> Like I said, you use the hobby for what you want and I'm a proponent of
> the proverb that says, "Perfect is the enemy of the good."
> 
> On Sat, 10 Mar 2012, David Gilbert wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Ham radio being a knowledge-based hobby, some people prefer to
>> understand what they're doing.  Apparently others don't seem to care.
>> 
>> Dave   AB7E
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 3/9/2012 9:49 PM, Hisashi T Fujinaka wrote:
>>> So let me say one thing I know about antennas:
>>> 
>>> PUT SOMETHING UP AND GET ON THE AIR.
>>> 
>>> You can get perfect up, and you can get OK up. You an argue about what
>>> works better and what works worse. But when the bands are open, you
>>> might be able to work DX with a cantenna under your desk. (I've heard
>>> stories.)
>>> 
>>> I used an untuned dipole with a LDG tuner to work my first (and only)
>>> DXCC back in the last sunspot cycle.
>>> 
>>> So what I'm saying is put something up FIRST and then start the arguing,
>>> I mean, discussion.
>>> 
>>> (But then again there are all sorts of aspects to the hobby and if you're
>>> here to argue you can if you want.)
>>> 
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