On Wed, 08 Jun 2005 12:23:50 -0700, Wes Stewart
wrote:

On Wed, 08 Jun 2005 12:52:01 -0400, Buck wrote:

Pardon me while I learn from this discussion.

Hold on Buck.

So far there has been very little "learning" to be done from this
discussion.

I dislike getting personal but I strongly suggest that you reject
anything Fred has put forth. Some of what he says is correct, but for
the most part you are being led astray. Since you don't yet have the
skills to separate the good from the BS, the safest thing to do is
ignore it all.

For example he has suggested that an all-band antenna can be nothing
more than a 130' dipole fed through 100' of 450 ohm line to which you
connect a 50 ohm coax and "your rig will be happy."

Let's examine this premise, shall we.

If you don't already have it, download the free version of EZNEC.

www.eznec.com

If you have MS Excel do the following. If you don't skip down below
the dotted line.


I haven't been ignoring this thread, I have been trying to figure out
eznec. I have managed to make it display a dipole and a two element
beam. I'll need to learn the more advanced features.

I'll try what you say If I can understand the program well enough to
do so.


--
73 for now
Buck
N4PGW