"Bob Brock" wrote in message
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On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 12:52:27 GMT, "charlesb"
wrote:


"Dick Carroll;" wrote in message
...

The point is, Why would anyone deliberately construct a 1/4 wave
dipole?
Since they woiuldn't for obvious reasons, the fact that a dipole
designed
for a
certain frequency just happens to be 1/4 wavelength at half that
frequency
doesn't
automatically make it a 1/4 wave dipole. An antenna is what it was
designed to be, not
what some wag-troll declares.

Sure, anyone *could* construct a 1/4 wave dipole, if he was that
ignorant.
No one does. So
there aren't any around.


Well now you've let the cat out of the bag, Dick. Somebody had convinced
this Troll to use a 1/4 wave dipole, and now here you go, letting them
know
that they've been snookered.

They just couldn't understand why the radio kept frying its finals and
they
never could seem to get a good signal out, even when the radio did
work....
Now they know why! - And its all your fault!

Party pooper.

Charles Brabham, N5PVL

What? Never heard of an antenna tuner?

Yep, I just don't get it at all. I think they're the ones that got
snookered.

Kim W5TIT