On 14 Oct, 08:07, "Dave" wrote:
"art" wrote in message

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Equi is for equal, libra is the sign of Zodiac which is a pair of
scales

It means that a repetitive action must come back to its source.
AC power has a cycle as in frequency, thus its circuit is one
wavelength.

A quad antenna represents a one wave circuit where total length is
proportionat
to time .ie a picture of events during one cycle.
Now place along side of the quad a radiator of your choice where
the length of the short radiator is superimposed upon the quad.
For ease in foillowing the electrical circuit make your shorty
antenna
equal to one side of the quad

So the race begins. Both travel up for a time at the SAME velocity.
At the corner of the quad power travels onward until it gets to its
originating point to complete a cycle
The short antenna appears to have nowhere to go so what does it do?
To duplicate the quad action it must have a circuit of some sort where
the power can still travel forward during the time the power in the
quad
is still travelling to the originating point.

Complete the circuit of the short antenna showing the series of events
that occur upto the point that the events on the quad come to its
point of beginning.

Note The impedance of space is 377 ohms, the impedance of ground can
be your choice.
Art

but a wave comes back to it starting point after 1/2 cycle then reverses.
so why does your original assertion of a 1/2 wave 'gaussian' antenna still
hold? now, for a 1/4 wave monopole, where does the other 3/4's of a wave
come from?? and what happens to the power that is radiated? how does that
ever return to it's source to be in equilibrium? would a circuit that was
in equilibrium not be capable of radiating since everything has to return to
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Oh dear I forgot to mention, there is another path for current flow
and that is at the center of the radiator. The impedance of this path
is lower than the impedance to space so naturally that is the path the
power will take.
Now on this inner path there are no electrons to dislodge as the
outer
electrons have decayed before they reached the center path so the
current
during this time is just travelling without supplying radiation until
it reaches the bottom of the radiator.
But it's counter part the quad is radiating during this time
( How about that experts!) And by the way it was mentioned somewhere
that the ground resistance was 2 ohms so one should now be able to
determine the IMPEDANCE of ground at the antenna base point
Now you take it from there....experts!
Art KB9MZ...XG