[Elecraft] Elecraft] searching for post by Wayne n6kr about counterpoise

[Fred C. Jensen]

You've broken the code Dave, speak softly, let everyone else figure it out on their own. [:=)

Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
Sparks NV

David Gilbert <xdavid at cis-broadband.com> wrote:
>
>
>I truly do not understand why this idea that "I can work anything I can 
>hear" hangs around as a gauge of anything meaningful.  It's a totally 
>meaningless reference.  Antennas are generally (as in almost always) 
>reciprocal between transmit and receive, so if you suck on transmit 
>you're likely to equally suck on receive.  So yeah ... most of us 
>probably can work anything we can hear but that doesn't mean anything 
>other than we haven't managed to screw up the physics of the world.
>
>73,
>Dave   AB7E
>
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>On 9/8/2018 5:00 PM, Fred Jensen wrote:
>> During the runup to Cycle 19 [!1957 for me], it was said you could 
>> work anything you could hear on 10 with 20 watts to the window screen. 
>> Window screens were copper in those days.  I tried it out with my 
>> "28-28" [6J6-2E26] rockbound 10 m TX, and indeed, I seemed to be able 
>> to work everything I heard if I had a 40 m rock close enough.  Window 
>> screens are no longer copper so I don't think it would work today.  My 
>> "tuner" was the adjustable link coupling to the tank.  College 
>> starting 1957, military and SE Asia in 62, and Cycle 19 was in the 
>> rear view mirror when I got home at the end of 1967.  Oh that Cycle 25 
>> would repeat even half of 19!
>>
>> 73,
>>
>> Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
>> Sparks NV DM09dn
>> Washoe County
>
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