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Old January 30th 10, 06:20 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
Cecil Moore Cecil Moore is offline
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Default Remarkably Small Antennas - Fact or Fiction

On Jan 30, 5:43*am, Richard Fry wrote:
Even if the design eliminates the feedpoint Xc of this electrically
small radiator at the operating frequency, its radiation resistance
could be expected to be miniscule, because the Rr of a radiator
depends on the electrical wavelengths it exposes to space.


What if a metamaterial conductor were discovered with a natural
VF=0.1? In the lab, light has been slowed down to a crawl.
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73, Cecil, w5dxp.com