[TowerTalk] Optimizing antennas

[Keith Dutson]

 Good story.  Reminds me of my purchase of a TI scientific calculator back in the 1970's.  It had a factorial key (!).  You could enter 69! and the display would go blank for about 20 seconds while the calculation was being performed.  I just ran the same calculation on this PC and the result:1.7112245242814131137246833888127e+98
came back in the blink of an eye. <grin>
73, Keith NM5G
    On Monday, May 24, 2021, 03:49:03 PM CDT, k7lxc--- via TowerTalk <towertalk at contesting.com> wrote:  
 
 >  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
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