Yeah, where's the paper bag hyperventilating emoji when you really need it... I'm continuously reminded that I'm too retarded to even understand how much I don't understand...
I didn’t say I did, so much. But have learned to follow discussions where components are involved as being easier to slice & dice versus where “theory” intrudes and it turns into
death by math.
There are only so many fixes for RF. Unlike, say, antenna theory where modeling comes in and variables get weird.
@prcguy comments that antenna theory is well-understood, that antennas themselves are “dumb”. From that I’ll take that claims can be spurious as to performance. That
for me how well it holds together (construction quality) is that on which I’ll focus as the last bits of performance aren’t going to matter to me.
FWIW, once I felt the nudge to take 11M
and my role in it seriously it was in reading — and re-reading — that got me along over time. A year or more in and I could go back to an earlier 78-post thread where participants were going off on tangents to the thread main question
and it made sense (not that I could jump into the pit with them).
I linked you to a SMITH CHART .pdf.
Yeah, the woods get dense, fast. Nano VNA to the rescue. “My” antenna system says
this. I can get those definitions and get a start since I have proper motivation in a concrete situation which matters to me.
Allen Applegate has (for me) the key ring to locks:
Mobile Install
I’ve read that a dozen times, easily, over the past six years. GIVES MY HANDS WORK TO PERFORM.
THAT is what for which I read.
There get to be keyboard warriors, everyone is susceptible, so it’s a matter of the mobile system itself.
The instrument use in the thread linked (for me) takes things (CAN take things) past where it matters
to me.
But the level of sophistication they offer (Nano VNA) puts me well-ahead of where I’d be without them. Cumulative, successful, changes. So long as I’m willing to also accept my mistakes and start over. (Why I need one. I “know” I’m doing pretty well, so now I need the numbers to arrange against each other).
It’s expensive to be kinda stoopid.
But it beats the dogshot out of video-games, etc. It’s real.
Everyone has noise problems. Amateur just likes to dial theirs higher & wider than chicken banders.
CB has to be seen in its dynamic environment to be relevant as driver attention is taking in tons of visual info at high speed.
Strangers, brothers-in-concerns-shared. There are very few at my level of competence, then.
The nuances of meanings (that’s my distillation).
1). I share the concern of a high noise floor.
2). I’m interested in cutting it back (physical application).
3).
I’m willing to run with “solutions”.
There are very few GREAT mobile systems.
There are MANY good to very good (my goal).
I’m hearing men that others around me — loud & proud — have no clue are on-air. They only hear me . . . I’m on the right track.
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