[amsat-bb] Re: Quadrifilar Helices

[Robert Bruninga]

On the other hand,

Some folks appreciate it when someone takes the effort to kit-up
or make a commercial product out of a common design and makes it
available to others who may not have the time to do their own...
Nothing wrong with that.  

> > Someone replied to me off-list with a commercial 
> > offer for his helix antennas....
> > and is also using the list to troll for "customers".

As  you said, it was off list. And it sounds like he thought the
person was intested in a Helix antenna.  He has them.  SO
nothing wrong with that.  In fact, that is a better approach
than a message to ALL...

> Good response, Nate.....99.9% of us resent these 
> dorks that use any portion of ham radio for their 
> profit!!

Leave me out of your 99%.  I appreciate when any ham takes the
effort to commercialize something for the benefit of others.  If
you don't want to buy it, that's your choice.  But do not condem
the person for trying to help out others.  It takes a lot of
effort to make something that other hams can use at a low enough
cost to make it worthwhile.  I think you should thank them.
Bob


> And I'm going to tell you a story that happened to me
~1965...I was 
> stationed at the Naval Air Station, St. Simons Is. GA, and
discovered 
> plans for a cubical quad...I think it was devised at some high

> altitude in South America to keep corona from burning the ends
of 
> other designs....
> 
> There were adequate plans available, probably got mine from
some ARRL 
> pub, and it was for  10,15 and 20 meters.... The spacing was a

> compromise for the three bands, so I got two four blade car
fans, 
> bent them, put them on either end of the boom, and got near
the ideal 
> reflector spacing for all three bands...It worked very well,
and 
> needed no  matching of any kind.
> 
> Just about every time I got on the air, this ham in Chicago,
would 
> join us, and kept asking details about the antenna, so, of
course, I 
> gave him all the info he requested...
> I was very pleased that he was that impressed, so I was happy
he was 
> interested..
> 
> I got transferred to the Naval Air Station Alameda, CA, and
about two 
> or three months after I got there I saw an ad in QST for
aluminum 
> cast spiders with the identical angles that I had bent my 4
blade car 
> fans!!!!  Advertised by the same ham I had talked to in GA!!
> 
> So, worth anything or not, all the junk I devise goes on my 
> website...Not to lay claim or anything of the sort...
> 
> I hope the guy in Chicago was successful, but if he was, I
never 
> heard anything about it!
> 
> At least two of us won't promote these jerks!!
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>             73, Dave wb6llo at amsat.org
>                     Disagree: I learn....
> 
>                Pulling for P3E... 
> 
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