Michael Coslo wrote:
Jim Lux wrote:
Consider this.. if the loop has an electrical Q of, say, 1000 (which
isn't unusual), and you're radiating 100W, then there's 100kW of
circulating power in the system.
Works on zero point energy?
Nope, the 100k joules/sec was stored in the system
during the initial transient key-down state and was
not radiated. It won't be radiated until the transient
key-up state. This is a characteristic of standing-
wave antennas. In a 1/2WL dipole, only about 20% of
the energy stored in the antenna is radiated. In the
small loop above with its astronomically high SWR,
only about 0.1% of the energy stored in the antenna
is radiated during steady-state.
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73, Cecil, IEEE, OOTC,
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