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Old December 28th 07, 09:37 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
Richard Harrison Richard Harrison is offline
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Default Standing morphing to travelling waves. was r.r.a.a WARNING!!!

Owen wrote:
"There is no "antenna system inductance and antenna system capacitance"
at all."

Then there would be no antenna. A real antenna has both types of
reactance, capacitive and inductive. In the best antenna, opposite types
of reactance are equal, so balance to zero, only leaving resistances,
radiation and loss types, to impede current into the antenna.

The transmission line, if its Zo matches the antenna, has no standing
wave, but the antenna in many cases has an open circuit at its tip which
generates standing waves aplenty on the antenna itself.

I am not critical of Owen. His posting was the only one I read in the
thread at that spot. Happy New Year to everybody!

Best Regards, Richard Harrison, KB5WZI