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Old October 31st 07, 07:57 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
Cecil Moore[_2_] Cecil Moore[_2_] is offline
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Jim Kelley wrote:
Do you consider a dipole in free space to be
a "single source"? There is no reflector yet
there is plenty of interference.


If there is no reflector and no splitter to redirect a portion of the
ratiated energy, but an interference pattern still results, then there
must be more than a single source. It should be fairly obvious that
both parts of the antenna must be present in order to generate the
dipole-type interference pattern.


Just trying to understand - are you considering the two
sections of dipole to be two separate sources?
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