John Smith wrote:
Art Unwin wrote:

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Certainly the copper loss is insignificant in the center but the
radiation resistance is only present for half the time (1/2 WL) !
Thus the input energy is half that placed on a full WL as well as the
radiated energy ( I think that is correct) So I suppose you could also
say that the radiation pulse is half the length in time of that from a
full wave antenna.Since the radiation pulse gap is small compared to
what your ear can sample I suppose the same intelligence would get
thru since the sample size is always much larger than what the ear can
interprete. Ofcourse there is the TOA to be considered in any
comparison.This looks all mixed up but I will post it anyway so that
posters will understand what real jabber jabber looks like. If you
look at it from a tank circuit point of view then it really gets
complicated especially this late in the evening
Regards
Art Unwin KB9MZ......(xg)

Oh, I see something here ...

I will give this a bit of thought ... damn puzzling. But, not saying
you have something, yet ...

Regards,
JS

By the way, "what the ear can hear", I "translate" into
milliseconds/nonoseconds/trillo-seconds (or, something only the mind
"can hear") ... but then, you already knew that sly-smile

And, still thinking, but then, there is something wrong in your
supposition ... I will find it ...

Regards,
JS