"Dave" wrote in message
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Ed Cregger wrote:
"Dave" wrote in message


If I did want to use non-resonant antennas I would locate a tuner at the
antenna feedpoint, not at the generator (transmitter).


Then you would cheat yourself of a fair amount of propagation and some of
the lower and higher frequencies available with such a set up.

You're not going to keep RF out of the shack, regardless of which system
you use. You might be able to keep some of the hot spots outside, but
often times they are close enough to the station that it is really a
waste of time.

This fascination with resonance is a leftover from CB thinking. How many
warships utilize resonant antennas? Yet they communicate the world over.

The aversion to transmatches is a ham cultural trait that has no basis in
reality, just as the CB'ers are hooked on resonant 50 ohm antennas. It's
a characteristic of the culture(s) of both types of operators, with no
basis in practical operating engineering.

Ed, N2ECW

You don't read very well. And you seem a tad hostile.

I stated no "aversion" whatsoever to what are called "non-resonant"
antennas. I said that I'd locate the tuner at the antenna feedpoint. A
transmatch between the radio and the transmission line does little to make
the antenna work better.

CB thinking? You really have issues.

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Actually, I read very well.

We are talking on a worldwide forum. Folks that take every single comment
personally have missed that point of view and usually react negatively, as
you.

If I wanted to raise hell and berate someone, this would be the last usenet
group that I would use. Most folks here are scientifically oriented and
would be no fun to irritate.

I am interested in two-way radio cultures. I own and use CB radios in
addition to my amateur gear. I had my FCC commercial ticket long before
encountering CB or ham radio. I was introduced to two-way radio while in the
USAF, so my view of the cultures is quite different than many civilian radio
cultures. No insult was or is intended.

When I say someone is oriented toward radio in a CB fashion, it is not
necessarily an insult. Why would I insult myself?

I may be a bit hostile, that's true. Anyone in the amount of pain that I am
in (and there are certainly millions with worse pain than mine) will be a
bit short or curt at times. My apologies.

The marketing campaigns for CB gear in the seventies placed emphasis on a 50
ohm match with a resonant antenna. Many CB folks received all of their
education in radio via those commercials.

Many hams, especially those that came from CB, would probably faint if they
knew that commercial broadcast stations often have an "antenna tuner" at the
base of their broadcast antennas. After all, tuners are no good, right? That
was one of the points that I was trying to make. Kind of a preemptive strike
on my part to reduce the number of complaints about folks running a dipole
antenna configuration while using twinlead feedline with a transmatch at the
station. I was not picking on you, nor was I trying to show you in a bad
light.

Ed, N2ECW