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Subject: Reliability
Author: K3CQ <k3cq@worldnet.att.net>
Date: 10-May-2003 12:02:05
Thinking about the ongoing debate on antenna reliability set me to thinking
about my 50 years experience with antennas:

Antenna Axiom #1: If it stays up, it's too small.

Antenna Axiom #2: You can't please everyone - no matter how good your
antenna is.

Antenna Axiom #3: Gain is relative.

(Depends on who's listening and who's transmitting.)

Antenna Axiom #4: If you please one person today he/she will want more gain
tomorrow.

Antenna Axiom #5: Antennas tend to proliferate to fill the space available.

Antenna Axiom #6: Antennas never last long enough nor are they ever big
enough.

Antenna Axiom #7: Big guns tend to get bigger.

Antenna Axiom #8: The most important antenna will always fail when you most
need it.

Antenna Axiom #9: When your last antenna collapses, it's time for an antenna
party.

(Not a pity party.)

Antenna Axiom #10: No matter how good your antenna is, someone else has a
better one.

Antenna Axiom #11: No matter how well you build your antenna system someone
else can tell you how you fouled it up.

Antenna Axiom #12: Amateur antennas are always a work in progress.

Neither Force 12 or any other group or individuals can repeal these Axioms.
They are field of force which is likely to always influence the Amateur
radio antennas and those who build them. All we can do is live with them and
endure the babble of those who argue about the merits of particular antennas
and systems.

Most of us are babbling about something we don't completely understand: the
mysteries of nature and the future. Humans are not made to know all of
either. Let's leave that knowledge to the divine and admit our human
limitations.

Humans who admit their limitations are less likely to argue about their
certainty that they are right and others are wrong.

Bill Hall, K3CQ




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