"Frank" wrote in message
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How many amateur radio operators use this kind of academic preening
when they are putting up a dipole.

Not many, certainly... but I would offer that those who do are able to enjoy
the hobby more thoroughly than those who don't. Whether or not that
additional enjoyment makes up for the extra time needed for learning, well,
that's up to each individuals.

I personally care about these things, and even for hams who think they
don't... most all of them have probably thoughts to themselves, at one point
or another, "Hey, what happens if you feed a dipole off-center?," and it's
nice that someone else has already gone through the effort to figure it out
such that the answers are readily Google-able! :-)

---Joel