"Jim Kelley" wrote in message
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On May 7, 7:26 pm, "Yuri Blanarovich" wrote:
"Jim Kelley" wrote in message

If it is not overpriced American Liberal Alma Mater then is "Yeah"????

You make a good point.

Nikola Tesla did more for the mankind than anyone produced by US
colleges.

Let's not get carried away. And I don't think Tesla was from
Yugoslavia.


He was born in Smiljan Lika, Serbia, Yugoslavia, studied at Carl University
in Prague. People know more about tinkerer Edison, than about greatest
engineering genius who gave us AC and so much.

Quite an insult to thousands of Slavic engineers immigrants who built
IBMs,
GMs, etc.

No insult to them was ever intended. They didn't write the paper by
any chance....??


Seemed to me implied: "Yeah" = mickey-mouse universities in Yugoslavia (or
Eastern Eu). For your information and based on my experience, Eu
Universities have much more rigorous programs and theoretical depth than
NA-U. When I was working for Big Blue, about half of the bright engineers
were graduates from Eastern Europe (post war imigration).

Can we discuss technical matters or rather play know-it-alls gurus?
Can you point out what is wrong with that paper?

I wish I understood this obsession you and Cecil have with gurus. I
don't share it.


It is more like reaction to people who are sometimes wrong and chime in on a
subject with: "hey stupid, it can't be" - parading as omnipotent gurus,
instead of asking questions and discussing the matter inteligently and
either defending their position or admitting that maybe we were not so
stupid and they COULD be wrong, and learn and get better.

What we perceive as "gurus" here, is a type of person who is wrong about the
subject, tends to get riding on a high horse putting down the opposition,
sometimes ridiculing and close minded to any, even elaborate explanation or
reasoning. Typically "guru" wants to have their last "right" word, even if
realizing that maybe they were wrong, never admitting or giving credit where
is due.

Looks like too much Woodstock generation getting into engineering and
forcing their "truth" to be the only one standing (Global Warming). If often
enough repeated in politics, it catches on with halfbright worshippers, but
has no place in science. Reality trumps theory, regardless who is trumpeting
it.

I am sorry that sometimes I get provoked and fire back in a like manner, but
when someone is trying to convince me that RF is behaving like DC current,
when I got burned my fingers on the bottom of the loading coil, then I just
react in kind.

About the paper; do you believe everything you read in the papers?
As I said, whether it is correct or not, I don't think it is
illustrated in Cecil's EZNEC printout.


If it is New York Times, definitely not. Technical papers? I would read them
carefully, take them with grain of salt, and if important to me, try to
understand it and I would verify it if possible.

Even if sometimes discussions get tangled here, because some just can't, or
don't want to get it, I am gratefull to those involved, because they bring
some points, that I would have not paid attention to and missed important
link in the chain of knowledge on the subject.

Another outcome is, that some subjects in current literature are not all
that properly described and warrant more detailed explanation and proof to
get corrected, and some discussions here shed some light at it and
highlinght need for more down to earth tutorial to set the record straight.

73, Jim AC6XG


73 Yuri, oK3BU