Aerials: was Serious Apostrophacalyspe
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militaryoperator
The word "aerial is short for "aerial wire" & dates back to Marconi's time, so dishes & Yagis etc should not be called
aerials. de John G8SEQ The C.E.D. disagrees: Surely you can have "an aerial", we used to say "TV Aerial", whilst working as a Radio & TV Engineer I never had anyone ask for "TV Antenna". Anyway, not really that important is it?.
Ben.
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I served in the RAF for 12 years as an Aerial Erector. We worked on all sorts. Never once did we use the term Antenna. Reg g8vhi Sent from Samsung tablet.
-------- Original message -------- From: "militaryoperator via groups.io" <Military1944@...> Date: 01/11/2020 11:33 (GMT+00:00) To: UKMicrowaves@groups.io Subject: Re: [UKMicrowaves] Aerials: was Serious Apostrophacalyspe The word "aerial is short for "aerial wire" & dates back to Marconi's time, so dishes & Yagis etc should not be called
aerials. de John G8SEQ The C.E.D. disagrees: Surely you can have "an aerial", we used to say "TV Aerial", whilst working as a Radio & TV Engineer I never had anyone ask for "TV Antenna". Anyway, not really that important is it?.
Ben.
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Chris G0WUS
In the Royal Signals in the 90s and the joke was Aerial "used to wash your clothes in a washing machine". Antenna was the only recognised name for it. Chris G0WUS Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
-------- Original message -------- From: "Reg Woolley via groups.io" <g8vhi@...> Date: 01/11/2020 12:02 pm (GMT+00:00) To: UKMicrowaves@groups.io Subject: Re: [UKMicrowaves] Aerials: was Serious Apostrophacalyspe I served in the RAF for 12 years as an Aerial Erector. We worked on all sorts. Never once did we use the term Antenna. Reg g8vhi Sent from Samsung tablet. -------- Original message -------- From: "militaryoperator via groups.io" <Military1944@...> Date: 01/11/2020 11:33 (GMT+00:00) To: UKMicrowaves@groups.io Subject: Re: [UKMicrowaves] Aerials: was Serious Apostrophacalyspe The word "aerial is short for "aerial wire" & dates back to Marconi's time, so dishes & Yagis etc should not be called
aerials. de John G8SEQ The C.E.D. disagrees: Surely you can have "an aerial", we used to say "TV Aerial", whilst working as a Radio & TV Engineer I never had anyone ask for "TV Antenna". Anyway, not really that important is it?.
Ben.
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The RAF train the Royal Signals! Sent from Samsung tablet.
-------- Original message -------- From: Chris G0WUS <sales@...> Date: 01/11/2020 13:01 (GMT+00:00) To: UKMicrowaves@groups.io Subject: Re: [UKMicrowaves] Aerials: was Serious Apostrophacalyspe In the Royal Signals in the 90s and the joke was Aerial "used to wash your clothes in a washing machine". Antenna was the only recognised name for it. Chris G0WUS Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone. -------- Original message -------- From: "Reg Woolley via groups.io" <g8vhi@...> Date: 01/11/2020 12:02 pm (GMT+00:00) To: UKMicrowaves@groups.io Subject: Re: [UKMicrowaves] Aerials: was Serious Apostrophacalyspe I served in the RAF for 12 years as an Aerial Erector. We worked on all sorts. Never once did we use the term Antenna. Reg g8vhi Sent from Samsung tablet. -------- Original message -------- From: "militaryoperator via groups.io" <Military1944@...> Date: 01/11/2020 11:33 (GMT+00:00) To: UKMicrowaves@groups.io Subject: Re: [UKMicrowaves] Aerials: was Serious Apostrophacalyspe The word "aerial is short for "aerial wire" & dates back to Marconi's time, so dishes & Yagis etc should not be called
aerials. de John G8SEQ The C.E.D. disagrees: Surely you can have "an aerial", we used to say "TV Aerial", whilst working as a Radio & TV Engineer I never had anyone ask for "TV Antenna". Anyway, not really that important is it?.
Ben.
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Colin Ranson
From: Chris G0WUS
Sent: 01 November 2020 13:01 To: UKMicrowaves@groups.io Subject: Re: [UKMicrowaves] Aerials: was Serious Apostrophacalyspe
In the Royal Signals in the 90s and the joke was Aerial "used to wash your clothes in a washing machine". Antenna was the only recognised name for it.
Chris G0WUS
Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
-------- Original message -------- From: "Reg Woolley via groups.io" <g8vhi@...> Date: 01/11/2020 12:02 pm (GMT+00:00) To: UKMicrowaves@groups.io Subject: Re: [UKMicrowaves] Aerials: was Serious Apostrophacalyspe
I served in the RAF for 12 years as an Aerial Erector. We worked on all sorts. Never once did we use the term Antenna.
Reg g8vhi
Sent from Samsung tablet.
-------- Original message -------- From: "militaryoperator via groups.io" <Military1944@...> Date: 01/11/2020 11:33 (GMT+00:00) To: UKMicrowaves@groups.io Subject: Re: [UKMicrowaves] Aerials: was Serious Apostrophacalyspe
The word "aerial is short for "aerial wire" & dates back to Marconi's time, so dishes & Yagis etc should not be called
The C.E.D. disagrees: Surely you can have "an aerial", we used to say "TV Aerial", whilst working as a Radio & TV Engineer I never had anyone ask for "TV Antenna". Anyway, not really that important is it?. Ben.
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Mark GM4ISM
These days I am a Antenna engineer, although I used to be ' STE
Aerials ' or in some circles a 'twig doctor' I was a member of the Ariel radio group... Names mean little to those who practice the dark arts employing smith charts and complex notation. It just Magic We don't cast chicken bones, Norstel clamps, N bolts or M10
studding or anything from 1000' up. Mark GM4ISM
On 01/11/2020 13:06, Reg Woolley via
groups.io wrote:
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alwyn.seeds1
Dear All,
As well as aerial wires, one can have aerial rods and aerial dishes. So, enjoying English usages, I shall continue with my Yagi-Uda aerials. BTW, Yagi was Ambrose Fleming’s student and Fleming was Marconi’s technical consultant so I should look at Yagi’s papers to see what he called them. Regards, Alwyn _____________________________________________________ Alwyn Seeds, Director SynOptika Ltd., 114 Beaufort Street, London, SW3 6BU, England. SynOptika Ltd., Registered in England and Wales: No. 04606737 Registered Office: 114 Beaufort Street, London, SW3 6BU, United Kingdom. _____________________________________________________
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Chris G0WUS
Certainly was colin. I was the only systems tech that was fluent in cw lol Chris G0WUS Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
-------- Original message -------- From: Colin Ranson <g8lbs@...> Date: 01/11/2020 1:12 pm (GMT+00:00) To: UKMicrowaves@groups.io Subject: Re: [UKMicrowaves] Aerials: was Serious Apostrophacalyspe Blandford speak !
Colin.
Sent from Mail for Windows 10
From: Chris G0WUS
In the Royal Signals in the 90s and the joke was Aerial "used to wash your clothes in a washing machine". Antenna was the only recognised name for it.
Chris G0WUS
Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
-------- Original message -------- From: "Reg Woolley via groups.io" <g8vhi@...> Date: 01/11/2020 12:02 pm (GMT+00:00) To: UKMicrowaves@groups.io Subject: Re: [UKMicrowaves] Aerials: was Serious Apostrophacalyspe
I served in the RAF for 12 years as an Aerial Erector. We worked on all sorts. Never once did we use the term Antenna.
Reg g8vhi
Sent from Samsung tablet.
-------- Original message -------- From: "militaryoperator via groups.io" <Military1944@...> Date: 01/11/2020 11:33 (GMT+00:00) To: UKMicrowaves@groups.io Subject: Re: [UKMicrowaves] Aerials: was Serious Apostrophacalyspe
The word "aerial is short for "aerial wire" & dates back to Marconi's time, so dishes & Yagis etc should not be called
The C.E.D. disagrees: Surely you can have "an aerial", we used to say "TV Aerial", whilst working as a Radio & TV Engineer I never had anyone ask for "TV Antenna". Anyway, not really that important is it?. Ben.
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Keith
I can accept aerial, aerials or antenna, antennas, BUT NEVER antennae.
I have a few hams local here in Perth who insist on using Antennae, and they really bug me ( sigh ) Cheers Keith
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Clint Sharp <cjaysharp@...>
Ah if only I could attach the monkey drums gif as reply. Well played pun.
On Mon, 2 Nov 2020, 14:09 Keith, <Keith@...> wrote: I can accept aerial, aerials or antenna, antennas, BUT NEVER antennae.
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User Handbook for Radio Installations in FFR 'B' Vehicles 1963
-- Clive GW4MBS (ex-G8ADP) Pottering on 6m - 3cm in a valley in IO71XW where any QSO is a triumph of optimism over geography!
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Gordon REASON
ould be dispatched to Perthae, downunderae .
On 02 November 2020 at 14:09 Keith <Keith@...> wrote:
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ooooh I spat my coffee and ROFL :-D On 3/11/20 3:31 am, Gordon REASON via
groups.io wrote:
-- VK2XAX : QF56if : ITU59 : CQ30 : BMARC : WIA
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