Forwarded with permission from Dean
>Pete:
>
>First, Happy New Year to you.
>
>I understand that the Tower Talk reflector has been busy talking about
>stacking Yagis in YT, started (I think) by someone who was evaluating
>40-meter stacks. In the original documentation (YT.TXT) in the first
>printing of the 18th Edition of The ARRL Antenna Book, I had a typo (saying
>"less" when I meant "more") concerning spacing between Yagis in a stack and
>the interaction between the point-sources assumed in YT.
>
>Please tell the guys on Tower Talk that they should download the patch on
>http://www.arrl.org/notes. This will update their YT.EXE, YT.TXT files (and
>the TLA.EXE and TLA.TXT files too) to the latest versions -- provided, of
>course, that they have legit copies of these files on their hard disks
>already.
>
>While they're on the ARRL Web site, they should download the enhanced
>statistical elevation files used with YT if they haven't done so already,
>per our earlier discussion. BTW, I proved to my own satisfaction the utility
>of these elevation statistics on my trip to 6Y2A for the 1998 CQWW CW
>contest. Although I was the 6Y2A 80-meter operator, I participated in the
>planning for all the antennas for all the bands. The theory seems to have
>been proven out by the results...!
>
>Another thing: For those using the older version of YT, they should be a lot
>more pleased with the graphics in the latest version. And, of course, the
>typo in the documention file was fixed...
>
>Feel free to put this message on Tower Talk.
>
>73, Dean Straw, N6BV
>Senior Assistant Technical Editor, ARRL
>Author of YT
>
>
>
73, Pete Smith N4ZR
n4zr@contesting.com
Loud is good.
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