[Elecraft] OCF antennas

[David Gilbert]

That's not the point.  There are those who enjoy ham radio for what they 
learn from it, and from optimizing their stations.  There are others who 
simply enjoy operating and don't really care much what is behind it.  
Either are perfectly valid (this is a hobby, after all), but you're the 
one who seems to think that the latter has some level of esteem that the 
former does not.  It doesn't.  Some people like to build high 
performance cars but never drive them ... others couldn't care less 
what's under the hood and just want to race.  Nobody is telling you to 
put your mic down and rigorously analyze your antennas ...  don't tell 
the rest of us to quit trying to learn from each other on this forum so 
we can spend more time telling somebody what our weather is like.

Dave  AB7E




On 3/10/2012 6:10 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.)
>>>