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Old April 4th 06, 07:11 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
Richard Fry
 
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Default Current across the antenna loading coil - from scratch

"Cecil Moore"
Does the FCC define physical lengths or electrical lengths?

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They call it an electrical length, but calculate it as the number of
free-space electrical degrees contained in the physical length of the
radiating structure, at the carrier frequency. So really, FCC "electrical
length" is a measure of a physical length, not of an effective electrical
length.

The effective electrical length of a MW monople radiator determines its
resonant frequencies, and that must include the velocity of propagation
along the structure -- which is a function of the height AND width of the
radiator (mainly), and the operating frequency.

RF