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March 12th 06, 09:31 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna

On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 15:06:15 -0600, (Richard
Harrison) wrote:

Owen Duffy wrote:
"Is that for uniform current as Reg asked?"

Reg described a short vertical wire above a perfect ground.

Without a capacitive hat or some such device, you have an open circuit
at the tip of the antenna (zero current) and a finite current at the
driven end of the wire. How would the current be uniform end to end?

That is *your* logic, and on the basis of it, you have chosen to
ignore part of the original question, the explicit statement "the
current in the wire being assumed uniformly distributed", without
qualifying your one word answer.

Owen
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