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Old September 5th 06, 12:16 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
Owen Duffy Owen Duffy is offline
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Default Dipole with standing wave - what happens to reflected wave?

On Mon, 04 Sep 2006 22:53:34 GMT, Cecil Moore
wrote:

Owen Duffy wrote:
Having regard for the sign of the traveling waves, the only solution
to those constraints / conditions is that the reflected travelling
wave must have zero amplitude.


Sorry Owen, that's not true. Assuming a 1/2WL dipole,

....

Cecil, the statement was in the context of the previous paragraph. The
travelling waves I was referring to where the ones I had just
discussed which were on the transmission line (and NOT the dipole).

Owen
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