Mark Keith wrote:
If you noticed a taper across a
coil, what would you do about it? How are you going to improve the
antenna, if #1 , the coil is already as high as you can place it, and
#2, the stinger is as long as you can make it.

Come on, Mark. How can ones ability to model and build better antennas
be totally unaffected by an element that is missing from their
understanding of the fundamental phenomena.

I don't see how we can improve over what we are using.

Do you think that people who have made improvements were unable to see
how they could make improvements?

But I still feel I'm already building mine as
well as they can be.

That may very well be the case, Mark. But unless you understand how
they work, you can't very well convince someone of why it is the case.

73, Jim AC6XG