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Old 11-25-2010, 04:10 PM  
SallyRand
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Originally Posted by AdultKing View Post
You may not be too keen on the technical side of things now, but when you are putting up an antenna and need to calculate the length of and how many radials that you need to use, or decide whether to bury them or have them elevated close to the base of the antenna then having the understanding of radio theory is handy.

Even simple things like how to measure field strength or filtering noisy power supplies requires a degree of understanding of radio-electronic theory.
No shit!

I'd like to see Davy try to erect an emergency antenna on the sailboat after a storm has taken down the permanent one. Can you imagine the outputs disappearing in a puff of smoke due to the antenna not being tuned properly?

Davy nees to learn to run one of these:

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