Ian White GM3SEK wrote:

It was clear enough to everyone else that he wanted to know how to make
measurements. It was also clear enough for you to declare that
measurements are not necessary.

Maybe this is a good time to remind you of your own favourite quotation:

"When you can measure what you are speaking about and express
it in numbers you know something about it. But when you cannot
measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge
is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind. It may be the beginning of
knowledge but you have scarcely in your thoughts advanced to
the state of science."

William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, 1824-1907.

I recently came across some other notable quotes from Lord Kelvin:

"Radio has no future."
"Heavier than air flying machines are impossible."
"X-rays will prove to be a hoax."

-- quoted in _Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion, and the Appetite
for Wonder_, by noted British writer Richard Dawkins. Dawkins also notes
that "William Thompson, first Lord Kelvin, was one of the most
distinguished and influential of nineteenth-century British physicists.
He was a thorn in Darwin's side because he 'proved', with massive
authority but, as we now know, even more massive error, that the earth
was too young for evolution to have occurred."

The value of Kelvin's contributions is unquestionable. But even he
didn't get it right all the time.

Roy Lewallen, W7EL