Re: [IRCA] Crate Loop kits now available

[satya@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

Hey Len:

Thank you for your email, and also to those who have since chimed in.

If you perceived that this project is a discovery of something new, that
was not my intent.  I understand that winding wire around a box is all
that is happening here, and per my construction article it?s really no
different than any other loop project other than the availability and
maneuverability of the frame.  Though not specifically stated, the purpose
of the construction article was geared towards those who were not aware of
the benefits of a passive loop and/or those who might be reluctant to
undertake building one.  My intent for the parts kit, per the first
sentence of my email to the IRCA board, was that if someone didn?t have
access to the parts and/or a soldering iron, that I would be happy to send
them the elements of the project at cost and ready to go.

We all have our reactions to what is said on the IRCA list. I guess I
can?t understand the level of what I perceive as frustration in your
words, and what in my view amounts to a terse, personal attack in a public
venue.  I take no offense, and if you would like I would be happy to
correspond off-list.

73 - Kevin Schanilec
Bainbridge Island, WA


> This must be said, and someone else tried to say it tactfully before.
>
> All you are doing is winding lots of wire around a box. Been done
> since the dawn of time, at least in the radio age.
>
> You make a box, you wind wire around it.  You find a variable
> capacitor, and adjust the number of windings to match it. It's a very
> basic loop antenna, the most basic. Yet, some of you seem to think
> you've discovered something brand new.
>
> Now you are talking about kits? The very least you could do is to
> educate yourself about this hobby before you start trying to reinvent
> 1910s technology and try to sell it to others as a kit.
>
> Somebody needed to say this.
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 7:35 PM,  <satya@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hey Bert:
>>
>> Sorry, I was hoping not to get into the construction business, and I
>> think
>> the shipping would be a killer for something this size.  The kit
>> requires
>> no technical skills other than wrapping and taping - sorta the DX
>> version
>> of gift wrapping(!).
>>
>> 73 - Kevin S
>> Bainbridge Island, WA
>>
>>>      Being technically inept, I'm sure you know my question ahead of
>>> time...how much if you build the thing and ship it to me? Just
>>> curious...and maybe a little lazy.
>>> Bert New Watkinsville, Georgia
>>> Proudly Serving You Since 1964!
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