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![]() "Cecil Moore" wrote ... Szczepan Białek wrote: In my antenna radiate the end where the voltage is doubled. In your something alse. What? Unfortunately, the voltage doubling is accompanied by transmission line currents at the ends of the antenna which are known not to radiate. The reason is obvious. When two currents are equal in magnitude and opposite in phase, they do not radiate (much) because their fields engage in destructive interference. These currents are commonly known as transmission line currents but also exist at the ends of a dipole as forward and reflected currents. When the phases of two currents are equal they engage in constructive interference and radiate. These currents are commonly known as antenna currents and exist at the middle of a dipole In the middle of todays dipole is the air. Current was in the Hertz' apparatus. that is equal to or less than 0.5WL long. Unfortunately for your theory, since the standing wave voltage is ~90 degrees out of phase with the standing wave current (in standing wave antennas), the higher the standing wave voltage the greater the destructive interference between the forward and reverse currents, i.e. the higher the voltage, the lower the radiation. In one antenna can be only one mechanism. In my antenna the current radiation is very weak. Sorry, but that is a simple fact of physics. If you want the ends of a dipole to radiate, you need to terminate those ends in the characteristic impedance of the antenna in order to prevent transmission line currents on the antenna. Doubled voltage do the work. Current not. If one models a 1/2WL dipole with the center 1/4WL part horizontal and the 1/8WL ends vertical, one will get a magnitude more horizontal radiation from the center half of the antenna than vertical radiation from the vertical half of the antenna. That's easy proof that the center of a 1/2WL dipole radiates more than the ends. The vertical radiation is 10 dB down from the horizontal radiation even though equal lengths of horizontal and vertical wire exists. Is EZNEC wrong? Radiation depends on the shape of the ends. Thin vertical wire radiate in horizontal plane. Tipped (big ball) vertical wire omnidirectional. Running the above dipole at double the frequency results in equal currents in each 1/8WL of antenna and indeed, the vertical radiation equals the horizontal radiation. Look at the Kundt's tube. At doubled frequency in the horizontal parts the new sources (doubled voltage) appear. The sources on the horizontal wires radiate in all direstion perpendicular to the wires. S* |
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