Roy Lewallen wrote:

What a lot of people call the "art" of antenna design is just a
substitute for understanding. If you don't understand the underlying
science or how to apply it, the only tool you have is Kentucky windage
and guesswork, often called "art" as opposed to real understanding.
While people can very often arrive at a usable solution by using nearly
all "art" and little "science", they have more and better solutions to
choose from as they replace some of that "art" with "science".


What I have found is that the antennas I design tend to mirror the
software. The times they have not, I can usually look around and find
the thing that causes it, maybe the height I ended up at wasn't the one
used for the design, maybe a metal structure, ground characteristics
were not the same. etc.

I think we attribute to "art" that which we do not know at the time. As
we know more, it all turns into science.

- 73 de Mike N3LI -