{"product_id":"i-only-use-compromised-antennas","title":"I Only Use Compromised Antennas","description":"Every ham knows that guy.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n“My antenna is resonant.”\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nExcellent. At one frequency.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nMeanwhile, the rest of us are trying to actually do something with our radios.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThe I Only Use Compromised Antennas shirt is for operators who understand that every antenna is a compromise: \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n- Size. \u003cbr\u003e\n- Bandwidth. \u003cbr\u003e\n- Efficiency. \u003cbr\u003e\n- Radiation pattern. \u003cbr\u003e\n- Height. \u003cbr\u003e\n- Portability. \u003cbr\u003e\n- Cost. \u003cbr\u003e\n- Feed line. \u003cbr\u003e\n- Installation. \u003cbr\u003e\n- Wind loading. \u003cbr\u003e\n- HOA tolerance. \u003cbr\u003e\n- How much aluminum your spouse will let you bolt to the house.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n“Resonant” isn’t a synonym for “good,” and it certainly isn’t a magic spell that makes every other engineering tradeoff disappear. A feedpoint can be resonant while the antenna is inefficient, inconvenient, narrowband, absurdly large, or radiating most of its useful energy somewhere you don’t need it.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThe same guy lecturing you about the “compromises” in your loaded vertical may have spent forty years saving for a tower topped with a multi-band beam:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n- thousands of dollars in tower, rotator, coax, grounding and hardware\u003cbr\u003e\n- permanently pointed in exactly one direction at a time\u003cbr\u003e\n- intentionally deaf off the back and sides\u003cbr\u003e\n- impossible to toss in the truck\u003cbr\u003e\n- useless for POTA\u003cbr\u003e\n- hilariously inappropriate for SOTA\u003cbr\u003e\n- difficult to move\u003cbr\u003e\n- difficult to maintain\u003cbr\u003e\n- and expensive enough that selling the house may involve its own demolition project\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nBut your 8-foot coil-loaded whip is the compromise.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nRight.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThe correct antenna is the one that accomplishes the mission.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nWear this shirt to the hamfest. Wear it to Field Day. And wear it while listening politely as an OM explains, for the seventeenth time, that your antenna tuner doesn’t actually tune the antenna.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nWe know, Harold.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nI ONLY USE COMPROMISED ANTENNAS\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nBecause the antenna with no compromises is usually the one that never leaves the brochure. ","brand":"Temporarily Offline","offers":[{"title":"Black Heather \/ M","offer_id":50517272002694,"sku":"6688893_8924","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Black Heather \/ L","offer_id":50517272035462,"sku":"6688893_8925","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Black Heather \/ XL","offer_id":50517272068230,"sku":"6688893_8926","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Black Heather \/ 2XL","offer_id":50517272100998,"sku":"6688893_8927","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Black Heather \/ 3XL","offer_id":50517272133766,"sku":"6688893_8928","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Black Heather \/ 4XL","offer_id":50517272166534,"sku":"6688893_8929","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Black Heather \/ 5XL","offer_id":50517272199302,"sku":"6688893_12878","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Heather Navy \/ M","offer_id":50517272232070,"sku":"6688893_8510","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Heather Navy \/ L","offer_id":50517272264838,"sku":"6688893_8511","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Heather Navy \/ XL","offer_id":50517272297606,"sku":"6688893_8512","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Heather Navy \/ 2XL","offer_id":50517272330374,"sku":"6688893_8513","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Heather Navy \/ 3XL","offer_id":50517272363142,"sku":"6688893_8514","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Heather Navy \/ 4XL","offer_id":50517272395910,"sku":"6688893_8515","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0622\/8724\/9542\/files\/unisex-staple-t-shirt-heather-navy-front-6ab591643e292.jpg?v=1790284141","url":"https:\/\/temporarilyoffline.com\/products\/i-only-use-compromised-antennas","provider":"Temporarily Offline","version":"1.0","type":"link"}