On Fri, 2012-02-10 at 14:09 -0500, Eddy Swynar wrote:
> On 2012-02-10, at 1:52 PM, Guy Olinger K2AV wrote:
>
> > It's not to not try anything. It's to try something that you know will
> > work, once you *know* what you have to work with. The ARRL and ON4UN
> > material presume uniformity. That, unfortunately, is only true where it's
> > true, and it's not true often enough.
>
>
> Hi Guy,
>
> I thought that was exactly what I was doing here at my QTH, i.e. not NOT
> trying "anything", but at least doing "something".
>
> Far too many words of advice / "tribal knowledge" that I've seen over the
> years in the matter of radial fields amounted to simply "...lay down as many
> wires as you can. PERIOD." That's neither enlightening, nor encouraging. The
> guidelines presented in the ARRL's & John's book, flawed though they may be
> when presented with an imperfect world, at least offer a place to start, in
> the absence of knowing exactly what might lie immediately below one's sod...
>
> I guess one can analyze some things to death. There are trade-offs between
> "qualitative" realities vs. "quantitative" ones---that's just a fact of life!
>
> ~73~ de Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ
>
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73,
Bill KU8H
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