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Michael Coslo · January 10th 08, 02:37 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna

wrote:
On Jan 9, 11:03 am, Michael Coslo wrote:
AI4QJwrote:
The NEC program is just a computer model, for discussion purposes only. I
think there are far too many variables in real life for the program to take
into account. It may be valuable but I am not yet convinced it is
infallible.
Oh darnit! Here I went and built several antennas designed with Eznec,
and they have worked just like the program said they would.

I guess I'll have to take the remaining ones down, since I was only
supposed to discuss them, not actually make and use them. Thanks for the
correction!

- 73 de Mike N3LI -

But you may have a problem discussing on the ng exactly "why" they
work. Why would you want to discuss an antenna if you don't care "how"
it works, you only care "that" it works?

Non sequitar here?

I do care about why and how the antenna works. I just don't agree with
AI4QJ's premise that Eznec is for discussion purposes only. It isn't, it
works just fine for design and implementation of them also.

Its a good tool for design of antennas. It gives me the data I need and
the expected outcome. I've designed simple antennas using "personal
level math" too. I don't do that much any more. I did the calculations
on paper too. I don't know if that makes them better than if they were
done using a calculator though.

There are some people that
operate at 27MHz who don't care how their radios work, only that they
can peg your meter at 10 pounds.

And there are some sanctimonius people out there who are educated
orders of magnitude beyond their intelligence, ready to throw out veiled
insults at the drop of a hat.......

Fortunately no one like that is in this conversation, eh?

- 73 de Mike N3LI -