On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 06:03:55 -0800, Tim Shoppa
wrote:

The examples in the
ARRL Antenna book are particularly heinous: they show elements
separated by a fraction of an inch (e.g. the twin-lead example, the
picture that shows the wires hanging from egg insulators) and these
examples are - from my experiments - the least likely to work at all.

I have been complaining about that particular example in the ARRL
books for years.

I am beginning to think that you & I are the only ones to try to make
it work!

I just had a moment of inspiration...I wonder why I have not modeled
it in EZNEC? Maybe later this evening...

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