Thread: In a ground plane, what dictates the number and spacing of radials?
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Old January 14th 05, 12:09 AM
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On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 20:05:24 GMT,
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: On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 14:41:33 -0000, "Airy R.Bean"
: wrote:
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: Discussed in the "Antenna Manual", by Woodrow Smith,
: pub "Editors and Engineers Ltd " dated 1948.
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: He refers to the "Brown Ground Plane Antenna" and separately
: to the "Drooping Ground Plane Antenna"
:
: But does he refer to the 'drooping' as an impedance-matching device?
:
: If not, what reason does he give for the technique?

capacitance is prop to gap between plates.


I think you meant that it's inversely proportional to the gap between
the plates.

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