21 Aug 2011

Antenna folklore

From the LF-reflector and very true.
Antenna engineers use to say about design goal limits of antennas:

    Small
    Efficient
    Wideband

Pick any two (meaning you can't have all three...).

73   Clemens   DL4RAJ

2 comments:

Dominic Rivron said...

An old ham I greatly respect who did so much to encourage me used to say, whenever the word antenna cropped up, "insects have antennae - radios have aerials!"

I think he was very much in the same position as King Canute on this: he certainly never actually stopped me using the American-English term.

Anonymous said...

Cheap
Good
Fast

Same thing.

73 de SV1WA