On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 17:35:11 -0400, "Walter Maxwell"
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"Richard Clark" wrote in message
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On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 23:17:40 -0400, "Walter Maxwell"
wrote:

Hi All,

Reg asked if I could send my data as an email, so I converted the file to text
format to be able to present the data in full here in this msg.

I checked to see that the tabular format remained intact, and it did in
Outlook
Express, so here it is. I hope the tabular format will remain intact in your
browsers. Be sure to give your screen maximum width. If it doesn't, let me
know
and I'll resend in PDF format.

I'd like to hear your comments.

Hi Walt,

Thanx big time for this work of dedication. I have other projects to
attend to, but I am sure looking forward to close examination of this
trove of data by hunkering down with Mathcad and casting up some
charts. Hope to do that within the week if not sooner.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC

Hi Richard,

Your mentioning Mathcad, (I have 2000i ed.) made me think of using Excel to
produce some graphs of the data, however, there are two other projects that must
come first. I have used Mathcad only to solve problems using the equations one
can build there, and have not explored the graphing possibilities. With both
Excel and Mathcad available do you think I should spend the time learning
graphics with Mathcad, or stick with Excel which I already know how to use?

Walt

Walt, I'm not Richard but my two cents would be stick with Excel. I
have a (now old) version of Mathcad (6.0) and don't use it much. It
is much better in handling complex numbers than Excel is tho.

Excel does the math just fine, but the clunky text results are a pain.

Also, I cannot recommend too highly Dan's (AC6LA) Excel based
programs. His MultiNEC front end for NEC, EZNEC, 4nec2, Antenna
Model, etc. is used all of the time here. For transmission line
stuff, including "building" matching networks XLZIZL is also
constantly in use at this QTH. Likewise his stand alone TLDetails.exe
should be in every ham's tool kit. (I'm a beginning amateur woodworker
and just like woodworkers, hams can never have too many tools.)