On 10/12/2014 12:09 PM, Lostgallifreyan wrote:
John S wrote in :

Excellent! I like to explore and I encourage everyone to do so whether
it be with math tools or getting your hands dirty. Keep it up.


Indeed. That synth I mentioned, it took me a good chunk of lifetime
waiting for someone to make so I could pay for it. I gave up waiting.

Jeff just posted about the perils of antenna towers and hillsides vs NEC2's
flat earth, and many earlier things (liek modellign with Sketchup prior to
engineering in metals and plastics, have taught me caution. measure thrice,
cut once. THis is how and why I want to use NEC, to save me from falling into
expensive and time consuming traps, which I think it will do very well.


Jeff seems to be a very experience man with RF. I don't doubt his
comments about what is possible with a practical situation. I, however,
am playing with some fundamentals (free space, antenna characteristics,
etc) so that I understand how to catch up to the gurus here. My toy is
the modeling program. I do like to compare theory to practical
situations, however.