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Old October 29th 07, 02:56 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
John Ferrell John Ferrell is offline
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Default Supposed comparison of Mobile HF Antennas in November QST

On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 14:52:13 -0700, Roy Lewallen
wrote:

John Ferrell wrote:
. . .
Modeling programs do not consider the radiation from the loading coils
but field measurements do.
. . .


Modeling programs do indeed include radiation from the loading coils,
provided that they're modeled as a wire helix rather than by use of the
lumped load object. EZNEC and NEC both have methods of automatically
creating a helix, making this process very easy. I believe most other
NEC based modeling programs also have this capability.

Roy Lewallen, W7EL

Ooops! I have not used that part of EZNEC yet so I accept I was wrong.
I will have to look a little deeper into why I was convinced that the
radiation from loading coils was not considered.

I still don't find a problem with publishing the article. If nothing
else it has generated discussion.

John Ferrell W8CCW
"Life is easier if you learn to
plow around the stumps"