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And that comes from someone with less than half the experience! >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 > > > > >-------------------------------------------- >Force12Talk mailing list provided as a service by Force 12 Antennas, Inc. >Force12 Web Site: http://www.force12inc.com > >To Submit Message to the List: Force12Talk@qth.com >To unsubscribe and view the Message Archive: see http://qth.com/force12/list >For problems with the list: contact n4zr@qth.com -- 73, Jim KJØM ._._. -------------------------------------------- Force12Talk mailing list provided as a service by Force 12 Antennas, Inc. Force12 Web Site: http://www.force12inc.com To Submit Message to the List: Force12Talk@qth.com To unsubscribe and view the Message Archive: see http://qth.com/force12/list For problems with the list: contact n4zr@qth.com |
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