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Old September 23rd 09, 07:12 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
Szczepan Białek Szczepan Białek is offline
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"Richard Fry" wrote
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On Sep 23, 6:14 am, Szczepan Białek wrote:

Highest antenna current do not means high enough to radiate. The high

current is in transmissing line of the short antennas.
. In 0.05 no currents at all at the feed point


If there is no current at the feedpoint terminals of a 0.05WL dipole

then there is no current anywhere else in it, and there would be no
radiation. Obviously that is not the reality.

The simplest dipole is a transmissing line (the two wires).The standing
waves are always 1/2WL apart. The max current is always 1/4WL from the
standing waves. " In 0.05 no currents at all at the feed point" means, of
course, that the current is very very small.

The current distribution in such short dipoles is triangular in form:

highest at the center, and zero at the ends of the dipole arms.

No such oddity in the reality.
S*