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Old September 16th 09, 12:53 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
Richard Fry Richard Fry is offline
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Default Spherical radiation pattern

On Sep 15, 5:44*pm, Richard Clark wrote:
To cut to the chase: *The full length of the radiator contributes to
radiation and the evidence of this is found in any characteristic lobe
displayed in the far field.


In practical and provable terms, how much of that characteristic, far-
field radiation pattern can be attributed to the linear, unloaded,
center-fed dipole radiator lengths as exist less than ~10% distant
from the endpoints of that dipole?

Just wanting to learn.

RF