[Elecraft] Off-Topic: Your advice/suggestion about antenna

[Tony Estep]

On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 5:11 PM David Gilbert <xdavid at cis-broadband.com>
wrote:

>
> ...I model EVERYTHING
> before I try to build it and I guarantee it has saved me hours of wasted
> effort and lots of dollars of wasted money.  I can also categorically
> state that I have learned FAR more about antennas from modeling than I
> ever did from trial and error.....
>
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That is so true. As I've posted here before, the 99 bucks you spend for
EZNEC can be the best ham money you ever spent. Its educational value is
really outstanding. No matter what piece of wire you propose to put up, you
can model its radiation pattern and find out so much more than you can from
the rich folklore surrounding antennas. Try it and see!

73,
Tony KT0NY