[Elecraft] OCF antennas

[Don Wilhelm]

And I went to CIT (Case Institute of Technology) - way back when -  
which was back in the '60s a rival for MIT in the forefront of 
engineering cutting edge technology.  After suffering through "Geunter's 
Green Book"  which was an attempt of an author promoting and refining 
his book advancing his math theories surrounding set theory, I think I 
got a decent math foundation.  That was back in 1959, so conditions have 
changed and the focus has morphed to a software related analysis, I 
remain well entrenched in the hardware approach.   While I can believe 
the software solution, I cannot  devise a hardware parallel, and that is 
my problem.  I have become a "user" of software solutions which include 
SDR.

73.
Don W3FPR

On 3/10/2012 8:10 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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