RadioBanter - View Single Post - Three short simple questions about antennas.

March 11th 04, 09:18 AM

(jaroslav lipka) wrote in message . com...
Hi Art

it is my experience that people with the greatest mastery of
the queen's english use it with great effect to deflect questions and
to avoid giving straight answers,and to change the subject without you
realising that they have done so. Politicians and Richards 1and 2
being good examples. What i have witnessed going on in your last
couple of threads has not led me to change my opinion.

Your tenacity and conviction in the face of the opposition on
this group is admirable. Stick to your guns, for what it is worth my
money is on you.

Jaro.

What I can't fiqure out is why he even cares what anyone on here
thinks.
Why doesn't he just build the things and use them? Why the need to
convince us of anything? Heck, I know from modeling that what he
describes can work as far as the tuning device being able to tune the
dipole. "loop/cap/dipole combo. "
I tuned his 20m loop/dipole thing on all bands 20m-10m. I know the
exact cap values needed for each band.
Big deal....
But it's no different than any other dipole as far as pattern or gain.
It's no different than using an autotuner at the feed, T match, or
whatever. His loop and cap is a matching device. Nothing more, nothing
less. And it radiates very little as far as disturbing the dipole
pattern, regardless of what Art seems to think. Also, it doesn't tune
well below the resonant 1/4 wave frequency of the dipole, without
added inductance. All he is doing is placing a tuning network at the
feedpoint of the antenna.
Again, Big deal....I don't see what the fuss is...
I think the main problem he has is that many on this group don't or
won't automatically embrace his design as the best thing since sliced
bread.
But why would they? His antenna is cumbersome, overly complicated,
probably a royal pain to set up,"the patented version", and the gains
over just feeding the dipole or array with say low loss ladder line
and tuner are miniscule, if any. His antenna is just not practical for
*most* people. I sure wouldn't have any use for it at all. I use full
size resonant antennas for the most part. Why would I want to
downgrade?
The way I see it is he has an unhealthy need to *prove* this design.
Seriously.
The guy is obsessed over the thing, and this is not very healthy.
I think he will end up in a rubber room before it's over with, the way
this seems to bother him. Myself, if I were him, I would ignore all,
build it and use it, if thats what he wants. He'll never convince too
many on here of the merits of his antenna, because to most of us, it
has none over what most of us currently use. Any of my 160m antennas
will totally thrash his current small "hi-Q" device. But if it's handy
for him, more power to him. MK