I see the cost and enormous amount of time I've wasted modeling this design in EZNEC as a complete waste I wish I'd never done in the first place. The reason is it mislead me to using the wrong phase for some time before I realized the program is off by 90 degrees.
I promise to not even consider another EZNEC model until the point which the model works with a 90 degree phase shift between 1/2 wave collinear sections as it does in the field. I've heard you say before you think you have an accurate model based on the manner your wires are connected now.
All I asked was for you to check and see if the model can now represent what works in the field with a 90 degree phasing delay between collinear sections. All you need to do was add the 4 wires and determine if the phase delay was 1/4 wavelength or 1/2 wavelength in electrical length.
You cannot claim to have fixed the phase problem in the model until the model replicates the 90 degree phase shift that works in collinear field tests. I don't care how many wires you use to form the cone, you're claim is false until it works with a 90 degree delay.
I feel like I keep saying that over and over in an attempt to drill it in your head that what you have DOES NOT WORK WHEN PUT TO THE TEST IN THE FIELD. Who gives a damn if a faulty model says your idea is right until you can demonstrate this in the field like I have?
100 years from now there still will not be a single person in the world to make a collinear Sigma work with the 180 degree phase delay EZNEC indicates will work perfectly, suggesting the original antenna is only a 1/2 wave. Any day you want to invest the time you can prove it only works with 90 degrees, showing the original antenna has a phase correction taking place to make the entire antenna radiate constructively.
I recognize it's not easy for you to conduct these fields tests accurately due to health reasons otherwise I think you would have shut your mouth and gotten off your ass to do them some time ago. Let me ask you this question. If the field test does show what I say with a 90 degree phase delay, do you understand how this proves the Sigma is much more than an elevated 1/2 wave??? I need to know this otherwise we have much more ground to cover first. Please answer this last question if anything because it is the crux of this issue entirely.
