As someone who is contemplating retirement from formal teaching duties after
42 years of teaching EE, Reg provides me an important bit of instruction
about retirement. All of my life, I have noted those I wish to emulate and
those who I wish not to emulate.
More experienced people (read: old folk) are able to contribute stories
of things to do and not to do. Reg and several others here have done just
that. Many important or practical parts of the art are not easy to find
even with the WEB. Knowledge should be cumulative.
On the other hand, tossing a stick of dynamite into the lake to see how
many fish come to the surface (this time) is in a different category.
73, Mac N8TT
P.S. Obviously, if the question were posed in law school, the best answer
would be to show that the "If" is not satisfied. Since the ideal length of
an antenna is not 0.25 WL, the remainder of the issue is moot.
--
J. Mc Laughlin; Michigan U.S.A.
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"Roy Lewallen" wrote in message
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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