[Elecraft] OCF antennas

[Bill K9YEQ]

Great humor, Hisashi!!!!  Isn't it just so?  So many years, so much
experience, but the operations matter so much more.  With my KX3 I am
hauling out all my old self-made antennas, including a super flex multiband
dipole in a 35 mm camera film can.  Love to play.

73,
Bill
K9YEQ


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Hisashi T Fujinaka
Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2012 7:10 PM
To: David Gilbert
Cc: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OCF antennas

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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