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Old October 28th 06, 12:52 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
Cecil Moore Cecil Moore is offline
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Default Hf Antenna Question - so what's the conclusion?

Owen Duffy wrote:
Those models also reveal the standing wave nature of the common mode
feedline current, and the futility of taking a current probe
measurement at a single location to infer any more than the current at
that specific location (if that was important).


In fact, the common-mode currents on the feedline
turn the feedline into a standing-wave antenna.
I suspect that's how an Isotron antenna works.
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