[Elecraft] OCF antennas

[Bill K9YEQ]

Don, 

This explains much about your excellent approach to issues.  I started in EE
and changed to Economics in the 60's.  I love electronics but the theories
and dedication to such intricacies bored me to death.  I love to play with
radios, learn what I actually need and leave the rest to those who do best
at the theory and studies.  Building stuff is my love, including PC's with
the software.

73,
Bill
K9YEQ


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[mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Don Wilhelm
Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2012 7:40 PM
To: Hisashi T Fujinaka
Cc: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OCF antennas

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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