"Art Unwin" wrote
The antenna compendium states that an assumption
is made with MoM programs that an assumption is made that current
in a radiator is sinusoidal where as we all know that the current
degrades in aplitude dependent on radiator length.
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Art, the current distribution along even the shortest (fractional
wavelength), constant OD radiator also is ~sinusoidal.

Currrent always is near zero at the open end of a linear radiator of every
physical length. The shape of the current wave formed along a very short
radiator appears to be very close to triangular. But in fact that
"triangular" current distribution is just a very short section of a
sinusoidal waveform.

N.B. that MoM programs show exactly this for radiators that are very short
in terms of electrical wavelengths. This also is proven mathematically in
the antenna engineering textbooks of Kraus, Balanis, Johnson & Jasik, etc
etc.

RF

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