[TowerTalk] Change in SWR

[Earl Morse]

>>On 12/3/2013 7:51 PM, Drax Felton wrote:
>> On Tower Talk no antenna is ever sufficiently patterned, no tower base ever
>> deep enough, nor wide enough, nor is cable greasy enough, nor is any guy
>> anchored stoutly enough.  Such is its nature.
>
>That's because some of us are engineers and scientists by training and 
>experience.
>
>73, Jim K9YC

It is easy science and engineering to make the tower base infinitely large, the cable permanently greasy, the ground plane perfectly conductive, and the guy anchors infinitely stout.  The real work comes in deciding how much large, greasy, conductive, and stout you can get for a buck and stay within the desired safety and performance parameters.

There lies the real rub.

73,
Earl
N8SS