Well Jeff, if you just took a wild guess, at some number to post in the thread just to post some words, then I'm really surprised. I didn't confirm your words, because we go way back. That was a mistake. It does reassure us all however, just how the CB world gets riddled with CB Bull Shit from every angle, every day. I consider mistakes one thing, but this is more than a mistake. I'll have to take my video down, because you admit now that you didn't have a clue what the facts were. You just took a number out of the clear blue sky and chunked your CBBS comment.
That's really reassuring, but it is after all my fault, because I didn't ask you first. After reading the thread "1/4 in. whip" I was thinking I had recently modeled a series of 1/4 wave whips, and that was my attempt to verify my real life testing of the 1/4 whip in 2006.
Then I decided to do a video thinking about the thread more so than just your comment, which was really an after-thought in my process of making the video. As it turned out, in preparing my rehash of the models to present, I was a bit surprised that your statement was "right on the money" with my model, so I thought to use your claim in the video. Y'all were talking about a mobile install, and I needed some way to slip the modeling aspect into the discussion, and your comment seemed to me to be a good connection.
I also said to myself, "...boy, I'm proud of Jeff, he's on his game, must have been studying hard about antennas." Hey, I didn't even know that was what the model would show. I had to go back and plug the 26.5 mhz into my model...that was setup at 27.205 instead. What a surprise when it showed 1.509 SWR, with a 108" whip as the radiator and with 4 x 113.4" radials slanted down at 30* degrees.
I can't delete my words, but I can delete the video.
