[TowerTalk] Loop vs Dipole...I'm original "asker"

[Steve Hunt]

K8JHR,

The Kelvin quote was slightly "tongue in cheek", but I think his appeal 
for "numeracy" has some value.

I wasn't arguing that modelling is better than empirical measurement, 
but that modelling is probably better than innumerate answers. It is 
certainly a useful "first step" in developing a new antenna, and it has 
saved me a lot of shoe leather :)

One other point -  it seems to me that the same "unknowns" in an 
antenna's environment which might make modelling untrustworthy, might 
equally make a fellow Ham's practical experiences irrelevant. In other 
words "just because it works for him doesn't mean it will work for me".

73,
Steve G3TXQ

Richards wrote:
> Your use
> of this bit, and your argument seems to be that the modeling program
> is much more reliable for a given case than real life experimentation
> in that case and that it is is not useful or practical or worthwhile to
> actually test the antenna design, but just see what the modeling
> program says.
>