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Jim Kelley wrote:
2. The current on a 75m mobile antenna is at least 90% standing wave current. And what's the other 10% supposed to be? The other 10% is the traveling wave that gets radiated of course (neglecting losses). Please explain how one would go about getting "standing wave current" to flow through something - anything - like a measuring instrument for example. Opps, standing wave current doesn't flow so you must have meant how does one eliminate reflections so that nothing except traveling wave current is present. Do you need that explained to you? Have you tried pulsing a current through one? I can't imagine there wouldn't be a delay in getting from one end to the other and back. Exactly, but some would say that's digital, not RF, or that is not steady-state conditions. 4. Yet, this is exactly the current that w7el and w8ji used in their measurements No, it is not. Sorry, you are wrong about that. w7el described in detail what he had measured and it was "total current" which was about 90% standing wave current. Here's what he said: "The result from the second test was a current difference of 5.4%, again with no measurable phase shift." All using the total antenna current which is about 90% standing wave current. What he didn't realize is that a current difference of 5.4% is a calculated phase shift of ~19 degrees, i.e. ARCCOS(1-.054) = ~19 degrees, to which you have previously alluded. Here's a question for you: What is the phase shift in the current in 90 degrees of an ideal lossless 1/4WL stub? I'm reminded of the troll at the bridge. I'm reminded of people who refuse to answer simple questions. One wonders why? The answer is zero degrees. To what phase shift do you refer? With respect to voltage, from one point to another, out and back - you need to be considerably less imprecise if you expect someone to bother to answer (to) you. The context was specified as current. Here is an EZNEC simulation which should help you. http://www.w5dxp.com/stub_dip.EZ Click on currents. You will see that the current phase varies by ~2 degrees end to end in 90 degrees of stub just as it does in a 1/4WL monopole over ground. -- 73, Cecil, IEEE, OOTC, http://www.w5dxp.com |
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