Reg:

I can see how one such as I might be confusing.
I came from academic institutions which (stated) they believed, "There are
no "dumb" questions, only "dumb" people who WILL NOT put these questions
forward."

I interpreted this to say, "You can either choose to look STUPID with your
question--and change, or, you can choose to maintain your pride (remain
silent) and remain "STUPID!"
I would like to think I choose the first (but, due to my limited resources,
has only marginally improved my stupidity)...

Also, it was common belief that a person had to hear the concept, idea, etc.
six-times before it was absorbed by the mind in question and became
"knowledge."
There may be those gifted in absorbing information on the first try,
however, I fall into the group I mentioned above. frown
It does make me appreciate men/women/children with tollerance and
patience--if that is any factor which would redeem me....

Warmest regards,
John

"Reg Edwards" wrote in message
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|
| Richard, I can see you adopt the same attitude as I do towards
| questions on this newsgroup which begin with "I have heard that . . .
| . ".
|
| Hardly a reliable start to a question. One gets the impression the
| questioner is unlikely to be able to understand the answer and tailors
| the answer to suit.
|
| Looking back over my career, I have never(?) taken anything out of a
| book (Terman, etc) at face value. The number of occasions on which
| errors and uncertainties of one sort or another have come to light has
| justified the time and effort expended in checking.
|
| Anybody who quotes Terman as from a Bible has only ever read him but
| must have never actually used him in anger. I mention Terman only as
| an example but hasten to add, in my opinion, he is amongst the most
| reliable of popular technical authors. I have only his first edition
| produced in the middle of WW2.
|
| The work which continued during the life and death struggles between
| the nations of WW2 never ceases to amazes me. During the battles of
| Leningrad and Stalingrad, Russian engineers were designing High
| Voltage DC power lines from yet-to-be-built hydro-electric power
| stations deep in Asia, into Europe.
|
| Stalin himself was concerned with the nutrition and the future of
| school children. During the horrible prolonged battle of Stalingrad he
| directed that children and mothers, then living in the frozen sewers
| beneath the ruins, should be given top priority with food rationing.
| This was based on the grounds that the average life of a soldier in
| the city, having just survived crossing the river Volga, was only 7
| hours and consequently he would not have time to eat and fully digest
| a good meal.
|
| As is well known the Germans ran out of food and ammunition first and
| the survivors crawled out of the sewers and burning buildings to
| surrender. The German generals must have known then the war was lost.
| But it was not until 6 months later, in the Battle of Machines around
| the city of Kursk, on the broad summer grasslands of the surrounding
| steppes, littered with thousands of burning tanks, wrecked mobile guns
| and aircraft, and deserted troop carriers, that Hitler must have been
| convinced of ultimate defeat.
|
| But another two years were to elapse and millions of Russian, Polish
| and German lives were still to be lost before Russian tanks crossed
| the Oder and Russian rockets and shells began to rain down on Berlin.
| ----
| Reg, G4FGQ.
|
| =======================================
|
| "Richard Clark" wrote in message
| ...
| On Sun, 1 May 2005 23:06:25 +0000 (UTC), "Reg Edwards"
| wrote:
|
| Some buried wires
|
| Some?
|
| under a horizontal dipole, at a height of 1/4 or 1/2
| wavelengths,
|
| Why that high? Another Wives' tale? What about 1/8 or 5/8 (or even
| some fraction in between)?
|
| will, in theory
|
| Whose theory?
|
| , reduce losses.
|
| Clearly loose conjecture. You got any data, or is this merely
| rustling baking crumbs out of your apron?
|
| 73's
| Richard Clark, KB7QHC
|
|