FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!
Richard Clark, KB7QHC wrote:
"Even morte amazing is that they (antennas) are linear transmission
lines."
Antennas and transmission lines are linear, passive, and carry incident
and reflected waves in much the same manner.
Look at "Current Distribution in Wire Antennas" on page 866 of Terman`s
1955 edition of "Electronic and Radio Engineering":
"A wire antenna is a circuit with distributed constants; hence the
current distribution in a wire antenna that results from the application
of a localized voltage follows the principles discussed in Chapt. 4---."
Chapt.4 is entitled "Transmission Lines".
Best regards, Richard Harrison, KB5WZI
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