On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 06:33:17 -0800, "John Smith"
wrote:

Hey, just how many of those multiple personalities do you have? But, only
one sane one?

Hi Brett,

How many screen names do you have? Is your serial multiple
personality somehow better than what you see as parallel multiple
personality? What about false personality? What you perceive as a
talent in yourself is projected to be the mark of a fool upon another.
In this group, we observe the laws of what are called symmetry and
reciprocity - two very strong, scientific principles.

The responsibility of posting to a newsgroup is that only you choose
what you think is important to discuss. Of your choices to go
technical or metaphysical (or CB truckers), I have no control over. I
have responded to your technical comments and your sidebars (as now)
equally.

Upon my analysis of the Top Hat on J-Pole you could have acknowledged
the results, asked questions about particulars of implementation, or
challenged the results to greater scrutiny - and simply ignored side
topics. I observe you have not shown any interest in obtaining the
model used. We share models as a commonplace expectation of peer
review. Any of this would have constituted technical correspondence.

Instead, the side-topics attracted your notice and you took that route
instead. I welcome all correspondence, but I am not responsible for
what you respond to when there are choices - especially when you can
add topics as well (a privilege I exercise, you present above, and I
do not object to in anyone).

So, as I offered so long ago:
1. Adding a coil offers loss [demonstrated];
2. Physical size in relation to wavelength dominates launch
characteristics [demonstrated];
3. It barely matters [less than 1dB].

The launch gain of a half wave radiator did not appear simply because
a much shorter antenna is ginned up to be antiresonant [demonstrated].

This also returns me to an unanswered question (also technical):
The rubber duckie antenna is certainly useful for some situations, however,
it is better if it stays on the walkie-talkie and we use another design for
portable or base use.
Given this opprobrium, what makes its cousin for 20M more suitable?

OR

I am both content, and competent to discuss those movies that would
have been more enjoyable than the alternative of sitting through the
snooze of finding gain from a small antenna.

OR

I am content discussing how to obtain the most gain from a small
antenna, or simply pointing you at 300 pages of results I've done
years ago.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC