NB,
suggesting DB somehow handicapped the I-10k is laughable,
he is not building antennas for profit, nor I'm sure does he have a hard on for astroplanes or p500's with old adverts on his bedroom wall,
so where is his Horse ? How does he benefit from handicapping the 5/8wave ?
This is the kind of attitude that chases the people you could learn from away from this forum,
DB is not brainwashed by old advertising & sentimentality about 5/8waves blocking his ability to learn,
Let me clear something up.
I don't care about how people on forums talk to me so don't think you or anybody else upsets me in that way,
if trying to bust bullshit comes across as me been a bully to some its not meant to,
what irritates me is somebody constantly making up their own laws of physics & disrupting threads with technobull,
Not because they are saying I'm wrong but because it makes it difficult for anybody wishing to learn something to determine who is talking technobull unless they go read articles from respected sources that often are not easy to understand for average Joe,
Its not my fault that you don't understand WHY a 5/8-.64wave is said to have more gain than a 1/2wave or that the advantage more than vanishes once you raise the 1/2wave to the same tip height,
I explained it multiple times in multiple threads,
you won't find anybody that understands antennas arguing with me on this point.
Current distribution on 5/8 dipoles is basic stuff that you really should understand before arguing about it,
inventing voltage chokes that don't exist is basic stuff, chokes resist changes in current,
maybe you mean self resonant chokes but that's not what you are saying,
The astroplane is not basic antenna theory when you add the mast inside the basket.
It may look like a simple dipole but its not,
that does not mean it whoops a dipole at the same feedpoint height or that I ascribe GOD like properties to it,
the advantage the astroplane has is height of current maxima, that's physics, not religion,
I don't expect you to be able to separate Zt from Za or recognise both impedances are there in parallel in the astroplane when you add the conductive mast, I'm trying to learn that stuff myself,its not easy like basic dipoles.
suggesting DB somehow handicapped the I-10k is laughable,
he is not building antennas for profit, nor I'm sure does he have a hard on for astroplanes or p500's with old adverts on his bedroom wall,
so where is his Horse ? How does he benefit from handicapping the 5/8wave ?
This is the kind of attitude that chases the people you could learn from away from this forum,
DB is not brainwashed by old advertising & sentimentality about 5/8waves blocking his ability to learn,
Let me clear something up.
I don't care about how people on forums talk to me so don't think you or anybody else upsets me in that way,
if trying to bust bullshit comes across as me been a bully to some its not meant to,
what irritates me is somebody constantly making up their own laws of physics & disrupting threads with technobull,
Not because they are saying I'm wrong but because it makes it difficult for anybody wishing to learn something to determine who is talking technobull unless they go read articles from respected sources that often are not easy to understand for average Joe,
Its not my fault that you don't understand WHY a 5/8-.64wave is said to have more gain than a 1/2wave or that the advantage more than vanishes once you raise the 1/2wave to the same tip height,
I explained it multiple times in multiple threads,
you won't find anybody that understands antennas arguing with me on this point.
Current distribution on 5/8 dipoles is basic stuff that you really should understand before arguing about it,
inventing voltage chokes that don't exist is basic stuff, chokes resist changes in current,
maybe you mean self resonant chokes but that's not what you are saying,
The astroplane is not basic antenna theory when you add the mast inside the basket.
It may look like a simple dipole but its not,
that does not mean it whoops a dipole at the same feedpoint height or that I ascribe GOD like properties to it,
the advantage the astroplane has is height of current maxima, that's physics, not religion,
I don't expect you to be able to separate Zt from Za or recognise both impedances are there in parallel in the astroplane when you add the conductive mast, I'm trying to learn that stuff myself,its not easy like basic dipoles.
