On Apr 1, 11:55 pm, "Harold E. Johnson" wrote:
Harold -- I'm going to do a 'Cecil' on you... Wrong! The load is the
space into which the antennae is radiating!

The devil made me do that! Sorry.

Dean -- W4IHK

Hi Dean, these guys have WAY too much time on their hands. If they had a
life, I'm sure they wouldn't know what to do with it.

Regards
W4ZCB



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Hi Harold,

I've found out that it takes a lot of time to spar with Richard C.
When he gets ya he won't let go. He and I have somewhat different
backgrounds--he's an English major, while mine are math and physics.
That's probably why his definition of 'interference' disagrees with
mine.

As you've probable already determined, I maintain that modification of
an antenna pattern from that of a single dipole results from
interference between the fields radiated from more than one radiator,
and the pattern is determined by the relative phase between the
interfering fields. Kraus developed 'interferometers' to analyze the
field relationship between the fields radiated from the radiators in
his radio telescope. What more does one need to understand the effect
of interference? SWR on a transmission line is another example of
interference, that between the forward and reflected, is it not?
Thanks for permitting me the 'time'.

Walt, W2DU