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Old December 20th 05, 10:00 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
Richard Clark
 
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Default Antenna reception theory

On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 15:33:50 -0600, (Richard
Harrison) wrote:

For a dipole 0.5 lambda long, Kraus gives (h) as 0.64X the length of the
antenna.


Hi Richard,

This is exactly (within one percent) of what the NIST uses for their
standard field measurements (described elsewhere in these threads).

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC