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Old September 1st 05, 01:10 PM
Cecil Moore
 
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Reg Edwards wrote:
If you erect a 10 meter 1/2-wave dipole and center-feed it with a 50
feet length of coax, and then transmit on 1.9 MHz, 99.9 percent of
available power will be radiated from the feedline and only 0.1
percent from the antenna itself.


I think most RF people would consider radiant heat from the feedline
to be heat dissipation (as opposed to RF radiation).
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73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp

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