"Reg Edwards" wrote in message
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"Sal wrote
That's outstanding! I see the original antenna was only about 15%
efficient
and the capacitance hat improved it by about 2 dB. I will play with
that
program. Thanks.

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Sal, enjoy yourself with it. I do not wish to dampen your enthusiam,
but 2 dB is only 1/3 of an S-unit. Hardly noticeable! ;o) ;o)

Agreed. What appealed to me was that the difference was so easily
calculated with your program. I simply reran the program with the hat
reduced to miniscule size and observed the difference.

This was an AM broadcast station (Armed Forces Radio Service), so the
difference was not likely to have been audible. The tech who put the hat on
the whip may just have been making it easier to match. It was forty years
ago.