On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 10:11:32 -0400, "J. Mc Laughlin"
wrote:

Dear Richard and Group: Ah so!

Since I have taken to automating the purging of notes from authors-of-noise,
it occurred to me that I might have turned up the squelch too high. I am
relieved to know that is probably not the case.

In the matter of antennas: my esteemed colleague AB8T's EM class' antenna
project was a great success. Students designed UHF TV antennas (Channels
14-51) using EZNEC5+, constructed the antennas, and then had their
performance compared to expected. It was an opportunity for students to
learn-by-doing in several areas. As readers on this group know well,
antennas involve several areas of science and engineering. The one
important area not covered because it was thought too far from EM, was the
issue of survivability in the presence of wind/ice loads.

Hi Mac,

It sounds like you will survive this fading battleship curve by having
secured your own life boat with these class projects - congratulations
to AB8T.

Myself, I find more interesting "antenna" applications being designed
at the nanoscale in a remarkable field called Surface Plasmon
Resonance.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC