[TowerTalk] Optimizing antennas

[k7lxc at aol.com]

>  How the "old-timers" managed to optimize must have had a pretty painstaking learning curve.  Now the PC "super computer" on your desktop can do several hundreds of 10 variable trade off calculations in a few minutes.      No kidding. I was the National Sales Manager for Amateur at Hy-Gain/Telex some years ago and I talked to Howard Pabian who designed the TH-6 - at one time THE Gold Standard for HF yagi performance.      Hy-Gain had a nice antenna range and you could run antennas up and down for easy changes. He said it took 4 hours for one iteration by the time you changed the necessary physical hardware dimensions. Ah, the good olde days - hi. Cheers,Steve     K7LXC