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Old January 23rd 08, 07:05 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
Richard Fry Richard Fry is offline
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Default Where's the energy? (long)

"Cecil Moore wrote
Richard Fry wrote:
Cecil, hopefully you understand that even isotropic radiators near each
other and excited on the same frequency with the same amount of power
will generate far-field pattern nulls.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding you.


I'm trying to understand how a line drawn between two
"isotropic radiators near each other" could ever be
in the far field.

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Everywhere it exceeds 2*D^2/lambda in length, where D is the greatest
dimension of the array.

RF