Re: NEC-LIST: RF Lab

Good day all.

I echo Hal's plea for "Hands On." Because equipment is digital
students tend to make all sorts of assumptions as regards calibrations
etc. I have seen some horribly wrong results.

Also, I still firmly believe that antenna labs for teaching should be
constrained to a range where the students can use pliers, files,
hacksaws, soldering irons, some stuff found on a scrapheap, etc for
really coming to grips with antennas. As soon as the antenna has to
be made by a machine shop, and someone else has to measure it, the
student does not really benefit.

Simulations are fine, but experience shows that a student still has a
long way to go to produce an antenna which works. The electrical
design is easy, the mechanical implementation definitely more
difficult.

Best regards,
Duncan Baker.

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