RadioBanter - View Single Post - Current in loading coil, EZNEC

November 4th 04, 01:02 AM

On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 09:25:20 -0600, (Richard
Harrison) wrote:

[snip]

|"For present purposes" we may declare anything so long as we don`t
|define our purposes, but Fig 9-22 on page 9-15 of ON4UN`s "Low-Band
|DXing" is significant and no one has said his pictures are wrong and
|given reasons.

There are multiple editions of this book. Could you describe in more
detail what the "pictures" are saying.

They are probably the same as in my third edition, just on different
pages with different figure numbers.

I should wait for your answer, but I'm going out on a limb and
guessing that they are the ones showing current distribution and "area
under the curve."

If my guess is correct, then I submit that using them in the current
context (no pun intended) is not applicable.

This whole "shootout" nonsense pertains to antennas with (unloaded)
electrical lengths well under 0.1 lambda. Devoldere shows no examples
of loaded antennas that are this short.

If I guessed wrong, then I will standby for clarification.