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On 19 Oct, 06:45, "Dave" wrote:
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On 19 Oct, 03:55, "Dave" wrote:
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Pseudo experts of fractional wavelength antennas.
Where does the current flow when it reaches the END of a fractional
length?
verticle antenna and why?
How does this relate to the term "end effect"?
If you have already written a book then tell us what the auther
said.
Art KB9MZ.....XG

it turns around and goes right back down the way it came.

So a electrical generater doesn't keep turning in one direction
but instead it occillates at the desired frequency.
I have never seen one do that!
And "end effect" is the confusion created at the top of the radiator

'end effect' is an effect of the capacitance seen from the end of the
antenna to ground or the other part of a dipole.

how does a generator come into this? you feed current into a wire with
an
open end, it gets to the end, reverses direction and goes back to where
it
started. no frequency was stated or implied all you asked was where
there
'current' went... that could be any kind of current including a step or
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The current comes from a generator does it not? So how is that current
produced?
I see a generator turning in one direction only all the time where you
are suggesting that it is occillating.
Pretty hard to draw a circuit if it tracks back the way it came.
Draw a graph of an occillating current as you would see on a scope
that shows two degrees of freedom.
Does the "x" direction stop after a half cycle?

i don't need a generator to create a current. hook a battery to a piece of
wire, watch the current travel to the end of the wire then reflect back.
its easy to do the measurements and they match exactly the theory. i use
this all the time, its called a time domain reflectometer. very handy for
finding breaks or bad spots in feed lines or Beverage antennas. use one for
a while and you will become much more familiar with the true effect of
currents on wires and reflections.