David Robbins wrote:

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simple or accurate??? you can't have both. in this case you have ignored,
among other things, that the capacitance between each infinitesimal part of
each vertical piece to the rest of the world is different. therefore your
transmission line sections are not uniform from end to end as needed to use
the classical transmission line formulations.
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But, since the 'classic' antenna calculations are only
approximate, how
much additional error would Reg's method entail, if any? I
think the
"simple -vs- accurate" thingy is one of the things that Reg was
getting at.
Very 'fiddly' (Hey Reg! I picked up an 'English' word, or would
that be
an 'UK-ism', sort of like an 'American-ism'?)...
'Doc

On Fri, 05 Dec 2003 12:06:42 -0600, 'Doc wrote:
But, since the 'classic' antenna calculations are only approximate,
how much additional error would Reg's method entail, if any?
Hi Doc,

Or more to the tenor of the purpose, how much accuracy would they add?
The point was in critical thinking and David's post extended that
horizon. This is all for the purpose of deriving a drive point Z,
which is the Three Card Monty of analysis.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC