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
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