Richard Clark wrote:
Cecil Moore wrote:
Kraus and Balanis also express the same ideas

:-)

Apparently, you are not reading the quotes: From "Antennas For All
Applications", by Kraus and Marhefka, 3rd edition:

From page 187 regarding standing wave ANTENNAS:
"A sinusoidal current distribution may be regarded as the standing
wave produced by two uniform (unattenuated) traveling waves of equal
amplitude moving in opposite directions along the antenna."

From page 465 regarding a dipole ANTENNA longer than 1/2WL:
"When the antenna (dipole) is infinitesimally thin, the phase varies
as a step function, being constant over 1/2WL and changing by 180 deg.
at the end of the 1/2WL interval. This type of phase variation is observed
in a PURE STANDING WAVE." emphasis mine.

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From _Antenna_Theory_, Balanis, Second Edition, Chapter 10, page 488 & 489
"The current and voltage distributions on open-ended wire antennas are
similar to the standing wave patterns on open-ended transmission lines ...
Standing wave antennas, such as the dipole, can be analyzed as traveling
wave antennas with waves propagating in opposite directions (forward and
backward) and represented by traveling wave currents If and Ib ..."

I got my ideas from Kraus and Balanis, and in particular from Balanis'
antenna courses at ASU where he found no fault with my ideas.

Do you agree or disagree with Kraus and Balanis that standing wave antennas
exhibit standing waves? If they do, they follow the well known laws of physics
governing standing waves.

The combined effort to suppers the ideas of Kraus and Balanis is getting more
ridiculous with each passing day. It can no longer be explained by ignorance.
--
73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp


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