On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 07:07:16 GMT, "George, W5YR"
wrote:

Richard,

It always astounds me how the technically challenged are wont to launch ad
hominem attacks instantly

Do you accept that yours similarly deflates your credentials? It
would at least place us on equal footing - in the gutter I suppose,
but I brought my snorkel. ;-)


73/72, George

Hi George,

If you suffer the heat of taking a stand, so much for a test of faith.
I have not seen you respond to the chain of evidence I have supplied
to these matters. I will offer that this body of work long preceded
my missive. You might or might not find that work
interesting/correct/or worthy of your attention, but that does not
erase if from the archive nor detract its intrinsic merit in desired
measure to bruised ego.

Pick any ONE of your cherished notions that I so soiled and put it up
for a clear and concise examination.

OR

Let me head that off with a very simple question that most dodge; and
in fact lies at the very heart of your subject line:
Given the premise that the amateur's rig output Z is NOT 50 Ohms, what
value does it have (cite any assembly of conditions)?

You will no doubt get many thumps on the back from well-wishers who
spit in my direction. How many will offer a numeric response to that
technical enquiry? I can forecast that will stand at the current
exchange rate of 0. I will also forecast there will be either total
silence, or scattered muttering about why they wouldn't engage such a
scurvy fellow as me. And yet the absence of that number from the
discussion under this subject line mocks the charter of this group
more than my humor did you.

Is it lower than 50? Higher than 50? How much? The stunned silence
in response to such simple, forced speculation is more a result of
intellectual catatonia than moral indignation.

Those who have offered numbers (I count among them), who have revealed
methods of their derivation (I count among them), who performed actual
bench work (I count among them), who offer rationale as to the
subject's correlation to other observables (I count among them) is
notable in contrast to those who have nothing to show but the shallow
rhetoric of impotent denial.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC