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"Wimpie" wrote:

I know from various documents written by amateurs that there is a lot
of antenna related expertise within the Amateur Ccommunity (from which
I believe many are professionals). Many times it is difficult to
figure out who is telling "the facts".

Regarding classes, I am sure there are, but mostly are very expensive.
In the Netherlands there are a few companies that offer courses on
antenna design. Sometimes they are cancelled because of lack of
attendees.

With respect to books, many books tell you how to build an antenna from
a drawing (and not the theory behind it), other books tell you the
theory behind it, but require differential vector calculus.

It took me many years to understand antennas at the same level as my
electronic design activities.

Given all this, ¡I still like experimenting with antennas! I just
finished a design for the coming "Jamboree on the Air" to be held
during the weekend of 22 October (Scouting activity).

Best Regards,

Wim
PA3DJS

sounds like you are having fun, goodluck at the jamboree what type of
antenna did you design?

I live in nyc, and couldn't travel that far to take a class actually
my crazy dream was to have the class here around nyc and more
'practical' ham related going over different antenna topics (for ex)
from the simple/to advanced 'stuff' theory/design/actual etc

maybe a few other related topic's heck i cant even find any good
videos or classes to cover upgrading to Extra, i have the arrl book,
it's more of a test guide than a step by step too bad there wasn't
a instructor led upgrade to extra class around i'd pay up

i think i knew of a few places that used to give begginers training but
not sure if those same ones' are still around

my local ham store had test gear i used to be able to 'play with' but
they closed up long ago

i may be wrong statistically speaking but i think it's odd that the
states w/the highest ham population by far have the least ham radio
stores


ps my ex girlfriend was from freezland

thanks for all
ml