"Jim Kelley" wrote in message
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On May 8, 9:26 am, Cecil Moore wrote:

Gurus are individuals who already know everything there is
to know and are therefore incapable of learning anything
new. That's not me.

So, that makes you the guy who says things like that about a person
just because he disagrees with him on a newsgroup.

ac6xg


It is not matter of disagreeing with person, more like discussing the
subject, finding out the reality (truth) and learning, sometimes admitting
of being off, or wrong, rather than defending the opposite, just
because.....

Many times I see that people do not bother trying to understand the problem,
researching it , but fire off "naaah, it can't be" and reduce their comments
to personal attacks.

Again, thanks to Cecil, Walt, Richard H and others for their contribution to
discussions, their persistence, it opened my antenna horizons and gave me
better understanding of wasaaaap with antennas. It will help me in my
further exploits and trying to build better arrays and taking advantage of
propagation modes and environment.

As a contester, I would encourage "gurus" to proclaim their "wisdom", for it
will confuse the competition and allow me to beat them by wider margin :-)
But as engineer, I would rather know the reality and what's behind it.

Just as an example: W8JI proclaims gospel on his web site that Beverage
antennas longer than 700 ft (on 160) are useless and waste of effort. When I
operated from W8LRL QTH and used his 3000 ft staggered phased JA Beverage, I
worked some 25 JAs, when rest of the East Coast hardly worked one or two.
Reality trumps over "guru theory" still insisting on his "gospel".

73 Yuri, K3BU