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February 10th 04, 09:47 PM

Wes Stewart

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On 10 Feb 2004 10:07:45 -0800, (Tom Bruhns) wrote:

|I think Wes has given you a nice explanation about _how_, but I'm
|curious _why_ you want to know the Q of an antenna. (Beware...some
|antennas behave as multiple coupled resonators, and it can be
|misleading to try to assign a Q to a whole system of coupled
|resonators. It makes some theoretical sense, at least, if it behaves
|as a single resonator over the frequency of interest, though.)

Good point. I was going to mention Yagis, etc. and point out the
pitfalls but figured I'd gone on long enough. [g]

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