On 5/28/2011 2:25 PM, Frank wrote:


How many amateur radio operators use this kind of academic preening
when they are putting up a dipole.

Too much hand-waving here to be useful to most folks.

People who are running NEC models, particularly NEC2 as opposed to NEC4,
tend to be interested in this kind of thing.

While building antennas and running them up the flagpole/tower/tree to
test is fun and enjoyable, you can save a whole bunch of time with some
modeling ahead of time (and besides, sometimes the weather isn't good
for antenna building/testing)