On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 15:33:23 -0700, Roy Lewallen
wrote:

|Chuck wrote:
| Roy Lewallen wrote in message
| ...
|
|...pirated copy of EZNEC.
|
|
| That is an absolute lie!
|
| My disk is an original - with a large, black,
| bold, italicized EZNEC at the top of its
| label - and the party from whom I acquired
| it, gave it to me with your full knowledge
| and approval. I can only assume this lie is
| an egregious and deliberate attempt on
| your part to defame. I will not discuss this
| further in public.
|
|I'll take your word for it, and apologize. You had claimed long ago that
|the program was given or sold to you, but for reasons of your own you
|would never tell me from whom. (Although I certainaly approve of such
|transfers, I never gained knowledge of whom the transfer was from.) In
|my posting of Sept. 26, 1997 on this newsgroup, I said:
|
| I don't generally give support to someone who's not a registered user,
| but in this case I guess it's necessary. (You still haven't sent me
| the name of the person who gave you the program, so I can transfer the
| ownership to you from him.)
|
|Because you never furnished that information, I assumed that you had
|acquired it illicitly.
|
|If you'll email me the name or call of the person from which you
|acquired it and the amount you paid, I'll promptly send you a full
|refund, in accordance with my guarantee. You're obviously not a
|satisfied user.
|
|
|
| I made Chuck an offer a while back, as follows: That if he has the
| Raibeam tested at a certified antenna range and the results show a
| free-space gain of at least 5.5 dBd (7.65 dBi) with simultaneous 25 dB
| or greater f/b ratio, I'll pay the test fee. This is performance less
| than he claims and less than he claims his model shows. But so far he
| hasn't taken me up on the offer.
|
|
|
| It's rather moot, now that I am no longer in
| business. However, If it's your desire to
| spend money to embarrass yourself, I
| won't argue.
|
| There were two reasons why I let your offer
| slide. First, I was unaware of any testing
| facilities in my area, and second, I was
| struggling to meet customer demand and
| could not justify spending the time to
| develop a unit for UHF, since it was my
| understanding that most testing facilities
| could not accommodate frequencies lower
| than 100 MHz or so.
|
| I've since learned that the US Army testing
| range at Fort Huachuca in Tucson, AZ is
| open to civilian testing, and they can
| accommodate frequencies as low as 50
| MHz.

Fort Huachuca is not located in Tucson, it is located at Sierra Vista,
AZ, approximately 90 miles SE of Tucson.

Some of the capabilities are listed he

http://www.epg.army.mil/Test_Beds/ATF.htm

As an aside, I have tested under the ARC range and have been to the
top of the "Red Tower" just to look around. Quite a view! I've seen
photos of an M1-A1 tank mounted on the positioner of the "Compact"
range.

Unfortunately, when I was there five years ago, a lot of the equipment
associated with the compact range appeared to be in disrepair.

I suspect that you will have a hard time getting testing done here as
security is a big issue. But I could be wrong.


|
| My wife will finish her chemotherapy and
| radiation treatments in March, and since
| she is quite ill, I cannot foresee my being
| available until after that time.
|
| Allowing say 30 days or so for me to
| prepare an antenna, I invite you to make
| the arrangements in Tucson - say April -
| May, 2005 or so - and I will be more
| than happy to join you there.
|
| Is this agreeable?
|
|No, you'll have to make the arrangements.
|
|Determine the cost of the test. I suggest that we find someone who is
|willing and we both can trust to whom I'll send the money the test will
|cost, as proof of my willingness and ability to pay the test fee if the
|antenna meets the criteria. Let me know when the test is to be done, and
|I'll come down and observe. The person who pays will have the legal
|right to make the results public. I agree in advance to do so if I pay;
|I expect you to do likewise.
|
|Roy Lewallen, W7EL