On Sep 22, 6:48*pm, Art Unwin wrote
after major clippage:
Today's efforts are applied to computers where data comes out in
bundles which have to be sorted to determine if anything good is being
offered by using a mish mash of arithmetic formulae that are merged
with similar formulae from different functions. *Sad, sad, sad.

However as far as NEC is concerned, your sad-sad-sadness applies only
to those (possibly even yourself) using computer software without
sufficient understanding of how it should be used, and applied.

Note that the U.S. FCC has endorsed the use of NEC in the licensing
process of many types of directional MW broadcast arrays -- given that
such NEC analysis was performed by someone with provable and
acceptable competence.

RF