On 2014-10-27 09:53:36 +0000, gareth said:

So, you start off with a quiescent piece of wire, and launch a wave into it,
some of which will be radiated. The rest is reflected off the end, and arrives
back at the feed point, the open end causing a reversal of the current,
and in a
short antennae, the current arriving back at the feed point is out of
phase with
the voltage and so the antenna appears reactive.

So, for those who deny that some of the power is not radiated, whence does
the reactance arise?

I am fairly sure that it is difficult to dissipate power in a reactance.

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Percy Picacity