I'd tend to agree that it's a baloney survey statistic. Particularly for
the very simple reason that if the source and raw data aren't available,
it's likely that the interpretation was "conveniently" tailored to fit the
OP's opinion. It's the tool of scoundrels to never offer up the backing
data, but point to "a recent survey". My professional experience has time
and time again demonstrated that many of those "recent surveys" occurred
only in the mind of the person offering it to support his or her opinion.
Though to be fair, there are enough real ones that were done badly as to
support any sorts of wild extrapolation to what ever the scoundrel wanted
to 'prove'.
73,
Grant
KB7WSD
On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 11:44 AM Edward Mccann via TowerTalk <
towertalk@contesting.com> wrote:
>
> This was recently posted on the internet by one of hamdom’s self
> appointed experts:
>
> “The Joe Hams of this world . . . where currently 60% of them seem
> to be quite happy with an EFHW antenna, 30% with an EFRW (Random Wire)
> antenna, and 10% understand antenna technology.”
>
> Is this anywhere near accurate?
> Could it possibly be so?
>
> Are 60% of the 779,545 US hams (467,727) and 60% of the 3.345 million
> World-wide hams (2 million) really “happy with” or “using” an EFHW?
>
> Or another 30% (233,863 in the US and 1 million World-wide ) “happy with”
> or “using” an end-fed random wire?
>
> That leaves only 334,569 who understand antenna technology!
> Even with a ballot with room for write-in candidates!!
>
> I must have missed the survey, and certainly wouldn’t have answered “yes”
> to the “are you happy with an end-fed half wave or random wire.”
>
> Comments?
>
> AG6CX
>
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