Thanks for the kind words, something too seldom seen here lately.

Long ago, I told Art that I and some others wouldn't pay much attention
to his conjectures unless he posted some quantitative results showing
how his antenna creations were better than any others. He interpreted
this as an attack, and that slowly turned to the hatred you now see. He
dislikes EZNEC, I believe, simply because it's my program. I've
eventually become the personification of the cartel which is out to
belittle and deride him, preventing him from achieving the recognition
he believes he deserves for his revolutionary insights. I'm in no way a
qualified psychologist, but I see a number of similarities between this
and the behavior shown some time ago by Nathan "Chip" Cohen
(Fractenna"), who also considers me to be evil incarnate for much the
same reason. As far as I know, these are the only two people in the
entire world who dislike me this much. I'm afraid that by saying
complimentary things about me, you -- and by association, your program
-- will be joining me on Art's hate list.

I'm sorry to see that some of my postings and comments about EZNEC are
regarded by anyone as advertising, since I don't believe that
advertising is appropriate here. I do naturally use EZNEC as an example
or suggestion when giving an example of how to model something or to
illustrate a point and frequently recommend the free demo, but I don't
believe I've ever suggested that anyone buy EZNEC or that it's
necessarily superior to any other program. In fact, I often give tips on
using NEC-2. I also post corrections when someone says something about
EZNEC's capabilities which isn't true, and to answer questions about it.
I invite anyone who considers what I say about EZNEC to be out of line
to comment -- I'll certainly try to change my level of commentary if
there's general agreement that I've been advertising.

Roy Lewallen, W7EL

4nec2 wrote:
Just out of curiosity, but can anybody inform me what's the problem
between Art and Roy. In every posting of Art, Roy's name (or EZnec)
shows up. Why not mention NecWin+ or Supernec or others ?

I don't know Roy, but when reading his postings I sure think he is a
nice guy. When supplying answers on questions posted in this group,
it's expectable he does some EZnec advertising, because it's a
commercial product. Mostly he also takes the time to tell that there
are other productys around with similar capabilities...

It's a pitty I was not aware of EZnec first few months after I
stumbled over the Nec2 program.

:-(

Arie.