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Meandering Antenna
Richard Clark wrote:
The zig/zag wire pieces do, however, not contribute to the far field . . . ?????? This is news to me! . . . radiation. Given the same feed current, the meandered dipole radiates less then the full HW one, so the radiation resistance goes down. . . . Meander antennas are waht happens when you try to put a 80M antenna in a 20M backyard. . . . or 160M into a shoebox (connect the dots) Twas a primitive antenna, a brutish thing, and went extinct long ago. Meanderthals we called them. - 73 de Mike N3LI - |
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