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    What does Exnec say about a couple of Moxon Calculators?

    Marconi, I forgot to say that the proof is in the pudding. This past week I built a Moxon for 135 MHz and one for 146 MHz. I tested both antennas and their SWR plots as well as front to back ratio fall in line with what I expected based on their 4NEC2 models. I use 135 MHz for tracking down...
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    What does Exnec say about a couple of Moxon Calculators?

    Hi Marconi, The correct formulas were generated by W4RNL and his Basic program can be found at the website with a URL of http://on5au.be/content/a10/moxon/moxgen.html. The problem I found that causes values that don't model well is as follows: The error in the KG4ZOW online calculator source...
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    What does Exnec say about a couple of Moxon Calculators?

    Today I solved the mystery about the online Moxon calculators such as KG4ZOW and W4/VP9KF that return dimensions that do not model well on 4NEC2, whereas the program MoxGen generates dimensions that model correctly in 4NEC2. I found the problem to be an error in one line of the source code that...