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Old January 23rd 08, 07:13 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
Cecil Moore[_2_] Cecil Moore[_2_] is offline
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Default Where's the energy? (long)

Richard Fry wrote:
"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.


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


Are you saying that the sources that are "near each other"
are far enough apart to be in each other's far field?
How could that be if the two sources are D apart?
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