[TowerTalk] HFTA

[Bill Tippett]

Clive GW3NJW wrote:

 >Seems that this prog. is included in the 20th edn of the ARRL antenna
handbook, but not the 19th which I bought only this year :-(

         The predecessor of HFTA was N6BV's YT which
is included in your 19th edition.  See page 3-13
and the CD-ROM.  I thought the comments about it not
being available until the 20th edition were bogus
since I used YT when I put up my 10m stack in 1999
and later was a beta tester for the new HFTA version
in the 20th edition.

 >Is this available to me as an ARRL member anywhere, or do I have to shell
out for the 20th edn, anyone know?

         YT may not have all the refinements
of HFTA but it worked fine for my application.
ARRL has also posted changes in the methodology
used to download HFTA terrain data here:

www.arrl.org/notes/9043/HFTA-Changes.pdf

You may be able to use some of those tips with
YT also.

                                         73 & GL!

                                         Bill  W4ZV