Cecil Moore wrote:
Tom Donaly wrote:
wrote:
Cecil Moore wrote:
It's pretty easy to understand. Any two radials,
180 degrees apart and high enough, should theoretically
cancel each other's radiation in the far field.
Not true.
How much not true?
-45 DB, i.e. negligibly not true. :-)
That's what I thought. Sometimes, orders of magnitude are
important. Otherwise, people would be worrying about the fact that
they're closer to the center of the Earth in the middle of the
bottom of a flat bottomed hole than they are at the edges.
73,
Tom Donaly, KA6RUH