That reminds me of a couple of sayings: Good enough is perfect.
There comes a time in any project when you need to shoot the engineers and start production. Bob N7XY On Mar 10, 2012, at 5:10 PM, Hisashi T Fujinaka wrote: > I went to MIT. I can analyze the crap out of this if I feel like it. > > Or I can work DX and ragchew. > > Like I said, you use the hobby for what you want and I'm a proponent of > the proverb that says, "Perfect is the enemy of the good." > > On Sat, 10 Mar 2012, David Gilbert wrote: > >> >> Ham radio being a knowledge-based hobby, some people prefer to >> understand what they're doing. Apparently others don't seem to care. >> >> Dave AB7E >> >> >> >> On 3/9/2012 9:49 PM, Hisashi T Fujinaka wrote: >>> So let me say one thing I know about antennas: >>> >>> PUT SOMETHING UP AND GET ON THE AIR. >>> >>> You can get perfect up, and you can get OK up. You an argue about what >>> works better and what works worse. But when the bands are open, you >>> might be able to work DX with a cantenna under your desk. (I've heard >>> stories.) >>> >>> I used an untuned dipole with a LDG tuner to work my first (and only) >>> DXCC back in the last sunspot cycle. >>> >>> So what I'm saying is put something up FIRST and then start the arguing, >>> I mean, discussion. >>> >>> (But then again there are all sorts of aspects to the hobby and if you're >>> here to argue you can if you want.) >>> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> > > -- > Hisashi T Fujinaka - ht...@twofifty.com > BSEE(6/86) + BSChem(3/95) + BAEnglish(8/95) + MSCS(8/03) + $2.50 = latte > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html _____ N7XY DX Cluster Node - telnet to n7xy.net, port 7300 ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
