On 6/26/2011 6:44 AM, dave wrote:
On Jun 25, 3:51 pm, wrote:
On Sat, 25 Jun 2011 03:59:55 -0700 (PDT), dave wrote:

wow, it takes eznec to model a dipole for field day now? not that
many years ago i ran a competition at field day... given a hunk of
coax(with one connector installed), a roll of wire, and some random
pieces of rope, cut a 10m dipole, get it up in the air, and make a
contact. no eznec, a tape measure if you really wanted it, and who
knows what the coax was.

You take all the fun out of a guy's efforts.

too many people spend all their time analyzing antennas and no time
using them.

That is a disease that affects, as a SWAG, about 80% of the core
population here.

Then there are the people that ask questions because they are trying to
actually build something. Who almost always get what is effectively
GobbldeeGook in response.

All they just want to know how to make something that is "OK, works good
enough" and they have to wade through dozens of useless responses to
_maybe_ get one that's worthwhile.

Welcome to rraa, where no one "important" ever agrees.

tom
K0TAR