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October 28th 06, 10:16 PM
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Is the code requirement really keeping good people out of ham radio?
From: "Dee Flint" on Fri, Oct 27 2006 8:53pm
wrote in message wrote: A quarter wave whip at 73 MHz is only 3 1/4" long. No, it isn't. Wrong *again*, Len. I guess he just doesn't know the difference between feet and inches. I guess you did NOT read my admission of a typo? Of course not, you have me "killfiled" because my comments are just so "horrid" at not speaking the ARRL party line. An approximation of a quarter-wave monopole in FEET is 234/(frequency in MHz). 234 / 73 = 3.205 FEET. Tsk, the nit-pickers just didn't do the math. A quarter is NOT '0.205' but 0.250. Nobody checked that out. :-) Not even N2EY, the Mother Superior of the newsgroup who scrutinizes all of my postings with a beady eye, ready to have a "WRONG" orgy, hopping up and down in glee at "mistakes" and "errors" that "always" occur. :-) Dee, since you have me "killfiled" you won't see this post. I won't hold that against you. It's just another "ostrich syndrome" of the pro-coders refusing to see the reality of now. :-) |
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