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Richard Clark · September 14th 09, 07:22 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna

On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 23:24:27 -0500, (Richard
Harrison) wrote:

Art wrote:
"Thus if we have a radiator of one WL that is tipped in space and near
zero resistance in impedance metric we will then attain a spherical
radiation pattern with Poynting`s vector and thus a demonsration of
point radiation together with further evidence that radiation is of
particle and not of waves."

Hi Richard,

Lot of contradiction in the short space of one sentence, isn't there?

Tipped in space? Who but an astronaut know this? Is an antenna
tipped if he wasn't there? (The logical knot formerly known as "If a
tree falls in the forest, does it make waves or particles?")

A vector creates a sphere? A vector with no tail, and all head? Must
be a new science of mechanics there. If there is any lesson to be
learned from the past, then Newton has been discarded for heresy.

Where "radiation is ... not of waves" invalidates every patent
description Art has ever submitted - fortunately that doesn't have any
impact on the legality of their issue.

Let's see, where one of Art's patents teaches that reflectors are
shorter than the driven element, and the directors are longer, was
this due to the newly revealed particle theory? Art has steadfastly
refused to explain this novel design feature until - well certainly
not now (or ever?) and I will never see his mea culpa. Such an
admission would plunge the postings count into oblivion without that
full quota of nonsense.

What happened to his other patent's teaching of "length efficiency?"
Now that we have witnessed the dawn of the tilted equilibrated full
wave radiator (TEFWR), it would seem that "length efficiency" (which
formerly compressed the antenna by snipping off the ends that didn't
radiate) has been sent to the neighborhood Re-education Kamp.

As I stand on the corner waving goodbye to that bus, I fondly recall
how the logic stood that no current could be found on the tips of
radiators, thus trim them off to no loss of radiation. It took very
few decades before Art had then recognized that his new antenna's tips
had no more current than the full-length one, and he trimmed that one
once again! New and improved (as the saying goes). Another decade
passed into the new millennium and he observed that he could extend
this logic once again to the point where his last design encompassed a
160M full sized antenna in the space of two shoe boxes. The TRIUMPH
OF TITANIC PROPORTIONS.

Yes, I realize the irony in caps and terms chosen to illustrate this,
the Ritual Art of Antenna Bris. The careful reader may wish to count
the number of accumulated ironies, retorts, confutations, and quips;
and submit them on a sheet of paper inclosed with $2 in postage stamps
inside an envelope (send no coins), posted to me. Those who can show
the correlation between each and the appropriate patent number will be
awarded Mauve bonus points. Winners will be announced at a future
date. [Offer void where permitted by law.]

Cecil pointed out that in physics, electromagnetic radiation is treated
with duality, using either particle theory or waves, whichever is more
convenient for the problem at hand.

Well, there's the match for this pair of bookends. Cecil could have
as easily contributed with an inventory of his left pocket's contents.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC