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Old January 10th 08, 07:34 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
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Default Standing morphing to travelling waves, and other stupid notions

On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 11:25:56 -0800, Jim Kelley
wrote:

the Poynting vector for an RF standing wave has
a magnitude of zero and no direction.


So much for the Poynting vector of a position envelope. What are your
thoughts regarding the Poynting vector for a time varying envelope of
an electromagnetic wave? :-)


Hi Jim,

Imagine even more the dilemma this puts the dipole in! It has
suddenly collapsed into a shielded, dummy load. ;-)

DAMN! Did my TV screen just go blank?

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC