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After reading the entire paper more than once, I understand all of it, and I get what he is saying in the above quoted paragraph.
He is saying that given the level of misuse, and the amount of contradiction in its use it has certainly lost whatever meaning it had.
That was his first paragraph. I do not believe he would have spent the time he did examining the term over time and sorting out its true historical meaning if he thought it had no meaning at all.
I agree with him that today using the term will yield absolutely no meaningful nor useful assistance to antenna analysis. That is simply because it is not a clearly understood nor clearly defined term any longer. Using it leaves a different idea in every persons head.
I feel as I believe Cebik did - the term counterpoise has a definite historical meaning worth exploring and understanding, but it will not cure the misconception surrounding it whether one is a Ham or a CB operator.

<blockquote data-quote="HomerBB" data-source="post: 420989" data-attributes="member: 8569">After reading the entire paper more than once, I understand all of it, and I get what he is saying in the above quoted paragraph. He is saying that given the level of misuse, and the amount of contradiction in its use it has certainly lost whatever meaning it had. That was his first paragraph. I do not believe he would have spent the time he did examining the term over time and sorting out its true historical meaning if he thought it had no meaning at all.I agree with him that today using the term will yield absolutely no meaningful nor useful assistance to antenna analysis. That is simply because it is not a clearly understood nor clearly defined term any longer. Using it leaves a different idea in every persons head.I feel as I believe Cebik did - the term counterpoise has a definite historical meaning worth exploring and understanding, but it will not cure the misconception surrounding it whether one is a Ham or a CB operator.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="HomerBB, post: 420989, member: 8569"] After reading the entire paper more than once, I understand all of it, and I get what he is saying in the above quoted paragraph. He is saying that given the level of misuse, and the amount of contradiction in its use it has certainly lost whatever meaning it had. That was his first paragraph. I do not believe he would have spent the time he did examining the term over time [U][B][I]and[/I][/B][/U] sorting out its true historical meaning if he thought it had no meaning at all. I agree with him that today using the term will yield absolutely no meaningful nor useful assistance to antenna analysis. That is simply because it is not a clearly understood nor clearly defined term any longer. Using it leaves a different idea in every persons head. I feel as I believe Cebik did - the term counterpoise has a definite historical meaning worth exploring and understanding, but it will not cure the misconception surrounding it whether one is a Ham or a CB operator. [/QUOTE]

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