Reg Edwards wrote:
I am truly disappointed with the long-running discourse on balanced
and unbalanced feedlines and the power radiated therefrom. It's been
going on for years.

Nobody, especially poor novices, has ever learned anything from it.

99% of it is bafflegab.

Few of us understand what on Earth is being waffled about. And those
who do, prefer not to waste their time by joining in.

The reason I'm making this seemingly outrageous statement is that
NOBODY HAS EVER QUANTIFIED, not even once, what they are waffling
about. This demonstrates a great ignorance of the subject.

(Remember what Lord Kelvin said about the ability to measure and
quantify what it is you are gabbing about and how that ability is
directly related to what you really know about it.)

Perhaps somebody might be prepared to state the power actually
radiated from feedlines in watts. At least it may create the
impression you know what you are talking about.

It might possibly be at such a low level that, in the great majority
of cases, it's not worth all the megabytes of bandwidth which are
wasted on it.

As an unbiased World Citizen, I now find myself half-way down a bottle
of Merlo, 2000, a produce of France. But I have in reserve some decent
Californian stuff.

May I say how saddened I am to learn about the terrible disastrous
storm which has befallen some of the Southern states.
----
Reg, G4FGQ


Instead of sitting around for years reading the "bafflegab" and then
complaining about it, why didn't you QUANTIFY it yourself and report it so
as to make yourself useful?

John