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Old March 14th 08, 06:57 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
Roy Lewallen Roy Lewallen is offline
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Default Antenna physical size

Richard Harrison wrote:

Build a small scale model that can be tested indoors and report its
characteristics. Antennas are scaleable.


That's more easily said than done. One of the critical characteristics
of a small antenna is loss. And to correctly replicate loss in a scaled
antenna requires scaling the conductivity of the conductors as the
square root of the frequency. To scale to a higher frequency requires
that the conductivity be better than the original. Unless the original
is made from lead and the scale factor moderate, this wouldn't be possible.

Roy Lewallen, W7EL