Cecil Moore wrote:
Gene Fuller wrote:
Cecil Moore wrote:
The constructive interference in free space occurs before
the antennas, not after them. Such is the nature of
constructive interference which very few posters fully
understand. My original posting was designed to expose
the beauty of constructive interference.

That's the best line of the month. Can you help out with the Hollywood
writer's strike? Leno and Letterman need some help.

It's in Born and Wolf, Gene. Too bad you missed it.
Two one watt coherent waves combine with total
constructive interference to a four watt wave.
Of course, somewhere else they combine with total
destructive interference to a zero watt wave so the
average power remains at two watts.

Cecil,

Sorry. I missed it because it is not there. They don't say any such thing.

73,
Gene
W4SZ