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Re: [TowerTalk] Truth, Fiction, or Fantasy?

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Truth, Fiction, or Fantasy?
From: Mike Fatchett <w0mu@w0mu.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2022 16:15:49 -0600
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I am subscribed to the POTA parks on the air Facebook page.  If one person post that has a good outing and says that X antenna is best then a bunch of people follow right along and will just build it or buy whatever the antenna of the day is.  Wind River Coils or antennas has got rich off the POTA gang and I see most of them setting up with the coil right next to the ground and they think it is great.    You really can't even educate these folks.   Any antenna is better than no antenna.  Then the complain about having lousy success running QRP with completely compromised antennas. To each their own.

W0MU

On 4/26/2022 2:00 PM, Gene Smar via TowerTalk wrote:
  IMHO, antennas are all FM.


73 deGene Smar  AD3F
-----Original Message-----
From: JC <johnk0gcj@gmail.com>
To: jim@audiosystemsgroup.com
Cc: towertalk@contesting.com
Sent: Tue, Apr 26, 2022 3:08 pm
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Truth, Fiction, or Fantasy?

I think 10% is quite high. I certainly don't, although I can build and
erect antennas that work. Actually,
I don't think anyone understands antenna technology. Black magic is
involved and requires sorcerers
and involves incantations to which only a privileged few are allowed access.

John K0GCJ



On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 1:53 PM Jim Brown <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote:

On 4/26/2022 11:44 AM, Edward Mccann via TowerTalk wrote:
   “The Joe Hams of this world . . . where currently 60% of them seem to
be quite happy with an EFHW antenna, 30% with an EFRW (Random Wire)
antenna, and 10% understand antenna technology.”

The mind boggles.

73, Jim K9YC
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