Reg Edwards wrote:
Just to start an argument,

Things are even duller than usual in Rowley Regis, I see.

why is it that EZNEC shows zero gain for a
vertical antenna in the horizontal plane? Whereas, all your diagrams
show maximum gain along the horizontal.

C'mon Reg, it's only been three months since you last asked this and got
it answered(1). The time before that was four years earlier(2), and
before that multiple times going back at least to 1998(3). At the rate
you're going, you'll be asking it weekly before long. Getting tired of
promoting "TLI"s, grumping at "Gurus" (while carefully excluding
yourself, of course), grousing about Americans, and asking "Who's
Kraus"? C'mon, be original. Surely you can think of a new topic to keep
you awake on those long, boring evenings. I've got an idea -- maybe you
can use your knowledge to actually help some of the folks who ask
serious questions on this newsgroup.

For anyone who wants an answer to Reg's perennial question, use
groups.google.com to look up the following threads on this newsgroup,
where Reg has asked the same question and where it's been answered:

(1) "best HF antenna system next to a trailer?", Sept. 2005
(2) "40M Delta Loop Advice Needed:", May 2001
(3) "Raised V's burried ground systems." [sic], Feb. 2000
"Ground Radial system comparisons", April 1999
"Is there", Aug. 1998
"Better for DXing: Beam or vertical?", Aug. 1998

Roy Lewallen, W7EL