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Old March 14th 08, 10:06 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
Cecil Moore[_2_] Cecil Moore[_2_] is offline
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Default Antenna physical size

Richard Harrison wrote:
Cecil`s question about continuously loaded antennas is appropriate. I
suspect the wire size needs to be modeled too, but Cecil knows much more
about loading coils than I do.


I doubt that, Richard. When the length of a dipole is
much, much greater than the diameter of the wire, the
antenna will scale appropriately. But what happens when
the length of the antenna is not a lot greater than the
diameter of the wire?

It is the same problem as trying to use water in scale
models of boats. It just doesn't work.
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73, Cecil http://www.w5dxp.com