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September 22nd 04, 10:12 AM

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Ask Brian/W3RV about his inverted "L." It's meant for absolutely
every situation and every band. You just can't miss with his antenna.

Note how Mr. Burke misremembers what was written, and distorts the
meaning.

Of course, that's the name of his game. Which is the only game Weenie
Willy can play.

There's no reason to stay off of 160.

W3RV has helped me with many antenna projects. He has expertise ranging from
large Yagis to simple wire antennas.

The implementation of practical HF antennas for amateur radio is about 95%
mechanical engineering and 5% electrical engineering.

I don't think it's that big an imbalance but I agree in principle, the
physical design and execution aspects of antenna apparatus within ham
radio do tend to fall more into M.E. country than they do into E.E.
country.

Point is, the main problems are mechanical. As in where does it go,
how do I attach it to the house, where do I get the components without
paying big bucks. All of which can be answered with some thought,
knolwedge and experience.

Wait a minnit here James, it does not take a BSME to do some
respectable "eyebolt engineering" at Home Depot in order to get a
lousy but reliable wire up. I have a ham acquaintance who is a CPA I
occasionally turn to for sources of weird/arcane/cheap parts, he's an
unbelievable walking cheap antenna parts encyclopedia. Wanna a $10
prop pitch motor? Yeah, he knows where one can be glomed.

In the field of ham antennas MEs don't really have much to offer until
it gets down to big yagis on big masts in big towers which cost big
bucks if they fail. I've done some pretty serious M.E.-type structural
analyses and optimization runs for a few locals who are into big-gun
antenna farms over the years and it's worked out well for all
involved. They usually don't compulsively jump outta bed at the first
light of dawn to see if their piles of steel and aluminum are on the
ground after some big blow moved thru the neighborhood during the
night if I did the numbers for them.

By far the biggest contributions to ham radio and electronics in
general mechanical engineers make are in the fields of component and
equipment hardware design and production methodologies and facilities.

But of course to get anyone's help, it pays to ask in a nice way and
actually listen to/read the information provided.

Time/date/freq pse?

You forgot "mode?"

When I launched the challenge somewhere around here a couple days ago
I stated that it would be most convenient for me to latch up with
Weenie Willy on 20 or 40 ssb. I knew there was no point to even
thinking about a CW contact. "Do not feed the animals" . . . 'druther
let him make an ass of himself again with his only mode.

Always offer a choice.

(a) What available choices did I miss?
(b) I offered him the choice of showing up or not. He didn't.

QSL?

Don't hold yer breath

Believe me I haven't.

The point here is that, when directly asked, ol' Cecil made good. He
said he was an antenna guru and "CW expert" (yes, he said he was a "CW
expert") and that Morse was his "favorite fun mode". So when somebody
asked for a sked, he was there. No excuses or shaggy-dog stories, he
showed up with a good signal and worked everybody who could hear him.
Stand-up guy.

Amen.

As predicted, Mr. Burke refuses your request, and tries to make it
look like you are the bad guy.

As if.

He actually blew it twice over. Fact is that that I don't have any 40
or 20 antennas up at the moment so if he'd agreed to work me on 40 or
20 ssb I would have had one helluva scramble on my hands in order to
get on freq on time.

Lordy lordy be, I'd just love to do a few rounds of Five Card Stud
with him .. !

73 de Jim, N2EY

w3rv