RHF wrote:
"N",

Its about 'effective communication' as John Doty posted earlier
in this thread.

I think I've fairly well communicated my thoughts on the matter...
Thats all I intended to do. But it seems some have problems with even
that..
Every time I post something here, I get a load of @$#^$*%('s climbing
down my back. Get over it! If you disagree with something I say, fine.
I have
no problems with that. But to harp just because I won't dumb myself
down to
your "supposed" r.r.s.w. monkey level status, really starts to grate on
my nerves.

The average Shortwave Listener (SWL) who owns a Shortwave Radio
and WANTS More-Out-of-It; simply wants to 'know':

I'm not an "average" shortwave listener, and I don't claim to cater to
them.
Actually, I don't claim to cater to anyone....It's not my job.

- What to Buy and How to Put It Up.

That will stir more conflict than this thread....:/

- Or - What to Build and How to Do It.

I think the user should decide that. Not some guy 1000 or more miles
away...
Only he knows what he really wants or needs..I have no problems telling

someone how to build something, but for the most part, it's all been
covered a
zillion times over...Thats why they sell books. Thats why I have books.


- NO Rhyme-or-Reason is Required [.]

I can't live that way myself. I refuse to be "dumbed down" to trained
monkey
level, just because this is a shortwave listeners group. If I get too
technical for some,
"which I really don't think I do", or I get anal retentive because
people
keep calling certain antennas "low noise", they can just ignore it.
Many people *do* want
to know the truth,or maybe a little more detail about certain things.
They may not reply
to any of the posts.
Many people read the stuff,that never actually post. It's not like I
use a bunch of
fancy named mumbo jumbo, or obtuse theories designed to confuse people.
If they want to
call them "lower noise antenna systems", I'd have less problem with
that. But as I
said, I don't consider simply decoupling a feedline as making it a "low
noise" antenna
system. Even if that could be the end result for some. It's just acting
normally without
the common currents screwing up the operation.
If you take a milked down stock 302 ford engine with say 150 hp when
running
normally, and 2 plugs are fouled, allowing only 110 hp out, changing
all the plugs
does not make the engine a blueprinted 400 hp race engine. It will now
run properly with
the new plugs, but it will still be the same stock 150 hp engine. This
probably won't make much sense
to you, but that's a fairly fitting analogy I think...
The decoupled antenna system is just acting normally. The un-decoupled
antenna system
is not. It's a defective system. It would be more accurate to call such
a system a "high noise" system, than
it is to call the decoupled system "low noise". Or to me anyway...
I just want to make sure people understand that the lower noise they
experience
is due to decoupling the feedline from the antenna, and has nothing to
do with
the antenna itself. I'm sure many already realize this. But it seems
fairly obvious many
don't. I'm also sure not *everyone* wants to live in the dark like a
mushroom.
I make no apologies for being anal retentive. That is my job.




[ Please - Just Tell Me - What To Do ]

Why? It's not my job....:/ You should already be fairly well set up
anyway
judging from all the links you post ...

MK