On 8 Jun, 06:31, (Richard Harrison) wrote:
Richard Clark, KB7QHC wrote:

"That is, Gaussian being wholly divorced from matters of current and
more related to shape distribution?"

Yes. Put your search engine to work on: "Radio & Coherent Techniques".
Probably the first item to pop up will be: Scots_Guide/RadCom/introhtml.
Part 11 of this is "Designing Quasi Optical Circuits". First example in
this is a free space "Gaussian Beam" radiated from the enf of a glass
fiber. Lots of pages and lots of stuff in those pages.

Best regards, Richard Harrison, KB5WZI

I also did a search also on "Gaussian antenna" in Google and
was quite surprised that many of the groups comments were
appearing at the beginning.
I thought Google listed stuff based on activity around the World/net
on the number of people looking up the subject. True it does
describes
the activity as "high" with respect to the subject,
but to get close to the top of the listing shows that there is
silent
interest in the comments coming from the experts in this group.
This ofcourse delights me as the group is now supplying to the World
a window on its intelligence with respect to various subjects.
Keep up the good work. Your efforts are being rewarded and your
comments are providing high activity. As far as the difficulty
that the word "equilibrium" presents to some of the old guys
I am sure others may have use Google to resolve this sticky problem
Some may have looked at the work of the Masters and when seeing
constant use of this word got completely muddled up with respect
to what that word really meant. That really messed up their
interpretation
of the laws and observations stated. For the life of me I cannot
understand
how these people view themselves as experts yet acknoweledge that they
have no understanding of the word. To me it echoes those words once
said about education. All can learn but to understand is another
matter!
Without the understanding of the meaning of " equilibrium" how does
one interprete "conservative" or "non conservative" fields?
What laws of the Masters evoke removal of "equilibrium" from their
findings?
Maybe there is a true scholar out there that will describe to radio
amateurs
what holds the World together and where "equilibrium" fits in.
Old timers require that this problem be solved to see how this fits
in with
the teachings of the psuedo experts that reside on nearby couches.
Art