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Old September 17th 08, 02:32 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
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Default Equilibrium and Ham examinations

What, this is not the "Pulling Your Leg Festival?"

Damn, it appears I have caught the wrong door again! Last time this
happened, it was a womens restroom, at walmart, no less :-( -- at least
this is less embarrassing ... grin

ROFLOL
I did that at a technical seminar in a hotel once. I was pondering the
ramifications of the training and didn't even look at the door. It wasn't
until the only woman there rushed in (probably preoccupied as well) and
plopped down and peed that it dawned on me that there was something very
very wrong!

In any case, Art seems to have trouble articulating and I have completely
lost touch with any sense he might have made somewhere in the great pile of
this thread.

I get that even though a resonant dipole can be treated as if it were a
lumped constant at times, it really isn't that. Do electrons fly back and
forth down the pole and induce a magnetic field? Without flying off the
ends? Yes but that is hard to make sense of because there should be no
current flow in an open wire. A loop element maybe, but the resonant loop
has the same current as the center fed dipole. Perhaps looking at the
re-entrant cavity makes more sense.