[TowerTalk] Different dipole design

Jim W7RY jimw7ry at gmail.com
Wed Dec 25 23:20:03 EST 2024


LOL!


Get right on that Stan..

Jim W7RY


On 12/25/2024 10:03 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
> On 12/25/2024 7:41 PM, W3AB via TowerTalk wrote:
>> I know K9YC, Jim and some others, will agree with me. I*f you wish to 
>> play with antennas, please make a purchase of the ARRL Antenna 
>> Handbook a primary consideration. Regardless of how you feel about 
>> the org. *
>>
>> Read it cover to cover, making notes in the margins and dog-earing 
>> pages of importance. Put it where you can grab it easily for answers. 
>> You'll be happy you did.
>
> Absolutely, George. And some of the best advice I got from a friend 
> and fellow EE was to get seriously into antenna modeling as a learning 
> tool. I've always been serious about measurement of things I'm working 
> on, from my long retired career in pro audio, and in ham radio. It has 
> been my experience that if you feed NEC and accurate model, including 
> but not limited to soil conditions, it will give you very good 
> answers. But like much of life, it's also garbage in, garbage out. :)
>
> And when I do learn things, I often try to share them, by writing them 
> up in detail and doing talks at ham events.
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
>
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