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Old October 28th 14, 12:31 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
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Default Reductio ad absurdum - short antennae do not radiate well

Jeff wrote in :

However, if you do succeed in feeing it, either practically or
mathematically by simulation, then all of the power that ends up in the
short antenna will be radiated apart from that lost as heat in the
resistance of the element.


My imagination by now is going hyperbolic, I'm beginning to have visions of
this Mythical Tiny Beast of an antenna, as a short fat gold cross, perhaps
operating on the Hail Mary passband. Surreal, no? Miraculous certainly, if it
could exist. But I suspect even the resistance of pure gold is too low for a
hotline to God.