On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 10:41:56 -0800, John Smith I
wrote:

That is the worst statement I have EVER heard you make.

You actually HEARD it? Therein might lie your problem.

Time is a MAJOR factor in antenna calculations.

Of course, when I first used ELNEC, it took forever to model some
designs that takes EZNEC forever now (infinities being relative and
all). Some of these time dialogues underway now exhibit Zeno's
web-enhanced paradox: No one gives a **** before you are halfway
through the thread. I only look at every third post at most; so for
me, dialog has simultaneously jumped into the future while becoming
retrograde (moving backward in quality - time is money).

The upshot is that I get to hi-grade the nonsense, and peel the
banality one layer at a time for its comic content:

If you wish to decide what is on topic and NOT on topic, how about
corrosion limiters?

Been there.

Nylon rope? (yes, used by some as guys!)

Been there.

Ground conduction enhancers? (salts)

Been there.

Trees? (yes, used by some as masts)

Been there.

The antenna as art? (yes, some have to please their neighbors)

Been there.

Trenching equipment? (yes, some go overboard on the ground establishing wires)

Been there.

Bumper jacks? (yes, some use these to hoist up their collapsible masts)
Etc., etc.

Well, I haven't touched on that perhaps, but the list is hardly
exhaustive - is it?

Your interests about antennas like in a purely physical realm using
established methods, both practical and computational--some of ours
don't.

This would make more sense with a predicate... then again, maybe not.

Why your interests should over-ride others is a bit perplexing
to me ...

Then you should invest some time in the archives given the number of
hits on topics you consider to be foreign to me having "talked" about.
Your list reveals very little reading on your part. That is in scope,
not currency (I've been here some 12 or 11 years now). As already
offered (you didn't hear that either?), yours is a cultural problem,
not a technical one.

Now, seriously, you don't REALLY think that I would limit my
correspondence to just ONE topic - do you?

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC