It's not about license class. Why does it seem
that so many Technician class don't have a clue about the simplest of
things about radio or antennas but they know how to get a vanity call?

Ya gotta start somewhere.

When I first started in 1976 I ran 15 watts from a homebrew transmitter on 40
meters to a 'dipole' that was 15 ft on one side and 30 feet on the other. SWR?
Huh?

I worked 20 states like that.

I like to think I've learned a few things since then.

:^]

John K9RZZ