Topband: Models and the real world

Sinisa Hristov shristov at ptt.yu
Sat Dec 30 10:15:47 EST 2006


Tom Rauch wrote:

> IMO people are spending far too much time with models and
> not enough time actually building and measuring what they
> model. We are becoming a world of modelers where the little
> box on the desk gives us a false sense of physical reality.
> I've read more than one article by people who depend on
> models (a few by one guy who wrote and sold antenna
> software) where entirely wrong conclusions are reached or
> impossible antennas are built.
 
> It's actually kind of scary how absolute we think models are
> and how it is ruining our feel for how things really work.


I couldn't agree more with that.


73,

Sinisa  YT1NT, VE3EA



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