"Roy Lewallen" wrote in message
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The responses from the professors frankly baffle me. If that's what they
said, and if they meant what you think they mean, then yes, I disagree
with the professors. Folks will have to decide whether to believe them, or
me, or learn more about antenna operation so they can come to their own
informed conclusions.

I won't comment on the Navy training manual, recalling some of the
simplifications made in the equivalent Air Force documents in an effort to
make electronics understandable by the target audience.

Roy Lewallen, W7EL

I am also very familiar with the Military's method of training. even the FAA
does the same thing. They are trying to train a group of people that just
walked in off the street and a test said they had an aptitude to learn
electronics. In reality they may have no previous knowledge at all. All of
this training must take place in a few months so shortcuts in explaining it
may be taken, math used is often limited to an 8th grade level. Believe me
military training manuals are not the gospel of electronics but they are a
very good place to start without a pre-engineering prerequisit.