"Cecil Moore" wrote

Reg, a standing recommendation of mine is to download the free
demo version of EZNEC and have fun learning how to use it.
Any amateur radio operator who succeeds in doing so will be
rewarded for the effort expended (and was also a source of
extreme pleasure in my case). ELNEC/EZNEC and the Smith
Chart (Microsmith) are the most useful tools I have ever
encountered for comprehension of antenna systems. (Not
considering reference books as "tools".)
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Dear Cec,

In the present context, in the absence of body language, your praise
of EZNEC can perhaps be misconstrued as my criticism of that erstwhile
computer program.

On the contrary, I quite agree with your comments.

Regarding the Smith Chart, I have myself never found it to be of any
use. In fact I don't know how to use it. I am aware of its
long-standing existence, and what it is purported to achieve, from
this newsgroup and from the one or two ancient 'bibles' which I seldom
refer to.

But the absence of a Smith Chart may be due to some vague shortcoming
in my education for which I have no responsibility. So I have never
felt myself to be handicapped in any way. Indeed, I have gained from
this and other websites the impression that I am considered to be a
transmission line 'expert'. But I claim only to be a well-educated,
useful engineer who also happens, in retirement, to be a radio amateur
with the ability to express myself in plain written English.

To continue with my earlier message, I have just finished a third
glass of white, South African wine.

But enough about me. What are you doing about Bush?
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Reg.