From: "Dee Flint" on Fri, Oct 27 2006 8:53pm
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A quarter wave whip at 73 MHz is only 3 1/4" long.
No, it isn't.
Wrong *again*, Len.
I guess he just doesn't know the difference between feet and inches.
I guess you did NOT read my admission of a typo?
Of course not, you have me "killfiled" because my comments
are just so "horrid" at not speaking the ARRL party line.
An approximation of a quarter-wave monopole in FEET
is 234/(frequency in MHz).
234 / 73 = 3.205 FEET.
Tsk, the nit-pickers just didn't do the math. A quarter
is NOT '0.205' but 0.250. Nobody checked that out. :-)
Not even N2EY, the Mother Superior of the newsgroup who
scrutinizes all of my postings with a beady eye, ready
to have a "WRONG" orgy, hopping up and down in glee at
"mistakes" and "errors" that "always" occur. :-)
Dee, since you have me "killfiled" you won't see this
post. I won't hold that against you. It's just another
"ostrich syndrome" of the pro-coders refusing to see the
reality of now. :-)