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Old March 10th 08, 07:39 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
Art Unwin Art Unwin is offline
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Default Antenna physical size

On Mar 10, 1:56 pm, Roy Lewallen wrote:
You can pretty much sum up the characteristics of small antennas as:

Small - Broadband - Efficient: Pick any two.

Roy Lewallen, W7EL


Who knows what "efficiency" represents in the electrical world?
It is the word "small" that confuses everybody when the word
should be" fractional wavelength".
Small and large are meaningles in the antenna world.
No I diddn't overlook the sniping.