From K2AV:
In the text across this web site you will often see "we" or "us" and plural gramatical forms. I have been asked "Who is the other?" in "we".
I see and understand a thing as a mental picture of all its parts and workings. Looking at a house, instead of seeing "house", I see foundations, floors, walls, ceilings, roof, windows, doors, plumbing, wiring, all at once. In my mind a house is always a plural thing.
Likewise it is nearly impossible for me to consider the body of material presented here without at the same time seeing all those who participated some way in the discovery, gathering and presentation of the same, particularly the RRRRR and the Committee. That is why you will see "we" and "us" in website text.
The evolution of an FCP began in 2002 at a joint meeting of the two North Carolina chapters of the Potomac Valley Radio Club. Guy Olinger, K2AV and Jack Ritter, W0UCE traded napkin sketches of 160 meter antennas at a table in the back conference room of the Golden Corral restaurant in Burlington NC. In time other nearby club members joined in experimenting with the ideas. Nine years later we had four Inverted L/FCP's in the air, making scores in 160m contests. The rest of the early story is chronicled in the original May/June 2012 NCJ article.
After the article was published, the number of FCP installers contributing insight and experience increased rapidly and across the globe. Determined from correspondence, the FCP's good results were clearly spreading among small-lot hamdom via word of mouth and Jack's web site.
In no particular order, here is an incomplete and growing list of operators, many using FCP's or related designs, who have gone beyond the call of duty. They contributed seminal pre-FCP research, supported research activities, contributed photos used in the web site, exceeded their own FCP installation and contributed extra work, extra construction, extra correspondence, extra phone calls, extra experimentation, extra measurements, extra documentation, extra reporting, proofreading, textual corrections, or contributed carefully worked out conclusions both positive and negative.
K2AV -- W0UCE(SK) -- K9JWV(SK)-- NR4O -- N4AF -- K4CIA -- N4CW -- W4KAZ -- WB6JZY -- K5ESW -- N3ND -- K8OZ -- VO1HP -- K5AF -- KT3Y/KP2M -- HC1PF/IV3PRK -- MM0SAJ -- K2VCO/4X6GP -- DL2OBO -- N4DU -- NS9I -- NI6T -- N3HEE -- N1LN -- VE3MM -- N4YDU -- DM4IM -- US5WE -- N4CY -- WR5O -- K4QPL
They have contributed to an improving understanding of low band RF loss issues, particularly concerning vertical and partly vertical antennas requiring a counterpoise. Some number of these valued contributors are quite globally at-large, but definitely neighbors in the best sense. They are certainly Radio Researchers in spirit and practice, and Roughly Raleigh, even if only as viewed from the outer solar system. We cannot reveal our sources regarding Rowdy. :>)
While they may not consider their individual work significant, their and others' contributions and experiences all taken together are huge. Their influence is scattered throughout and dissolved into this web site, resulting in new or more accurate text, data and illustrations.