On Thu, 07 Apr 2005 17:23:46 -0400, Vinnie S.
wrote in :

On Thu, 07 Apr 2005 08:53:34 -0400, Dave Hall wrote:

On Wed, 06 Apr 2005 18:14:13 -0700, Frank Gilliland
wrote:


If you read the ARRL manual sometime you might learn that the hobby
comprises a little bit more than hooking up prefab components.

I took the hobby up a little over a month ago. I don't have a Frank intelligence
pill, which I swallow and am all knowledgable in 2 hours.


You don't even try.


But if
you want to waste your money and learn nothing about the hobby then
that's your choice, just like it's your choice to put me in your
killfile (LOL!).

I want to get on the air in as short time as possible. Starting to build stuff
from scratch, when you just entered the hobby, isn't the way to do tit.


Who says? Where in the rule book does it say that buying an antenna is
the quickest way to get on the air? It doesn't, and I'll tell you why
it doesn't -- because it's wrong. You can make a quick & dirty antenna
that works pretty darn good with nothing more than coax. Just strip 9'
of outer insulation, pull back the shield over the rest of the coax,
and =-presto-= you have a coaxial dipole. Hang it high or hang it low,
the match won't be too bad after you trim it, and it works better than
a 5' Firestick on the raingutter.


Snipped the rest of the useless babble.


Ok, so you have chosen to do the crybaby routine. Go for it. I'm sure
Dave will lend a sympathetic ear since he's always looking for another
co-dependent relationship.





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