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Art Unwin October 5th 10 03:31 AM

Antenna materials
 
Antennas usually are made of aluminum as copper is somewhat heavier
and silver and gold is to expensive. Since lead is now banned in a lot
of places especially with solder you can now buy solder that is doped
with Bismuth !
Now you can't coat your elements with it but if you have a solder
bath you can run copper wire thru it. The bismuth is brittle
but with the underlying copper it is stiff enough to stick it on the
antenna elements. I am assuming that the applied current would travel
along the bismuth coating instead of the aluminum and therefore should
increase gain for antennas that use coupling methods such as the Yagi
tho bandwidth may well suffer some what.
What do you think?

John Smith October 5th 10 03:45 AM

Antenna materials
 
On 10/4/2010 7:31 PM, Art Unwin wrote:
Antennas usually are made of aluminum as copper is somewhat heavier
and silver and gold is to expensive. Since lead is now banned in a lot
of places especially with solder you can now buy solder that is doped
with Bismuth !
Now you can't coat your elements with it but if you have a solder
bath you can run copper wire thru it. The bismuth is brittle
but with the underlying copper it is stiff enough to stick it on the
antenna elements. I am assuming that the applied current would travel
along the bismuth coating instead of the aluminum and therefore should
increase gain for antennas that use coupling methods such as the Yagi
tho bandwidth may well suffer some what.
What do you think?


What do I think? I think I'd rather have a platinum antenna! Sure, it
would be a lot heavier than aluminum, or even copper. Sure, I'd have to
keep it in a bank ... but, I'd still like it!

Regards,
JS


david October 5th 10 11:48 AM

Antenna materials
 
On Mon, 04 Oct 2010 19:31:38 -0700, Art Unwin rearranged some electrons to
say:

Antennas usually are made of aluminum as copper is somewhat heavier and
silver and gold is to expensive. Since lead is now banned in a lot of
places especially with solder you can now buy solder that is doped with
Bismuth !
Now you can't coat your elements with it but if you have a solder bath
you can run copper wire thru it. The bismuth is brittle but with the
underlying copper it is stiff enough to stick it on the antenna
elements. I am assuming that the applied current would travel along the
bismuth coating instead of the aluminum and therefore should increase
gain for antennas that use coupling methods such as the Yagi tho
bandwidth may well suffer some what. What do you think?


Lead free solder is still mostly tin.

John Smith October 5th 10 05:36 PM

Antenna materials
 
On 10/5/2010 8:06 AM, Jim Higgins wrote:

...
I think the RF current flowing thru the crystallized bismuth will
result in the Peltier occurring and will cause the outer ends of the
elements to become very cold and the inner ends to become very hot and
that the heat will soften the inner portions and the cold will cause
heavy icing on the outer portions weighing them down considerably, the
combination resulting in the elements bending and destroying the
antenna.


You guys are just nuts to consider messing around with a device capable
of emitting Orgone Radiation!

I mean, you may doom yourself to a life of having to use medical
marijuana to alleviate the migraine headaches and pain! Not even
getting into the heavy genetic damage which is likely to occur!

Regards,
JS

R.Scott October 5th 10 05:46 PM

Antenna materials
 
I think I will stick with good ole lightweight and relatively cheap Al
You Miny Um.


John Smith October 5th 10 05:53 PM

Antenna materials
 
On 10/5/2010 9:46 AM, R.Scott wrote:
I think I will stick with good ole lightweight and relatively cheap Al
You Miny Um.


Aye! Beer and aluminum! That is the way to go ... grin

Regards,
JS


Owen Duffy October 5th 10 08:12 PM

Antenna materials
 
Art Unwin wrote in news:1b9f0821-e110-4722-852a-
:

Antennas usually are made of aluminum as copper is somewhat heavier
and silver and gold is to expensive. Since lead is now banned in a lot
of places especially with solder you can now buy solder that is doped
with Bismuth !
Now you can't coat your elements with it but if you have a solder
bath you can run copper wire thru it. The bismuth is brittle
but with the underlying copper it is stiff enough to stick it on the
antenna elements. I am assuming that the applied current would travel
along the bismuth coating instead of the aluminum and therefore should
increase gain for antennas that use coupling methods such as the Yagi
tho bandwidth may well suffer some what.
What do you think?


I am not sure whether you are considering coating the elements with
solder, tin, or bismuth... but they *all* degrade the RF resistance of an
aluminium element.

Nevertheless, hams are suckers for snake oil salesmen. Just look at the
products sold for antenna wire, open wire feed line and whips... so you
might have an opportunity there Art.

Owen


Art Unwin October 5th 10 09:16 PM

Antenna materials
 
On Oct 5, 2:12*pm, Owen Duffy wrote:
Art Unwin wrote in


Now you can't coat your elements with it but *if you have a solder
bath you can run copper wire thru it. The bismuth is brittle
but with the underlying copper it is stiff enough to stick it on the
antenna elements. I am assuming that the applied current would travel
along the bismuth coating instead of the aluminum and therefore should
increase gain for antennas that use coupling methods such as the Yagi
tho bandwidth may well suffer some what.
What do you think?


I am not sure whether you are considering coating the elements with
solder, tin, or bismuth... but they *all* degrade the RF resistance of an
aluminium element.

Nevertheless, hams are suckers for snake oil salesmen. Just look at the
products sold for antenna wire, open wire feed line and whips... so you
might have an opportunity there Art.

Owen


Hmmmm!
Isn't the idea to get current to flow on the surface
without the skin depth problem? For instance, when you make a Meander
antenna distributed loads are not existent as they cancel out. This
also means that skin depth is non existant as there is no magnetic
field. Thus there is nothing to prevent the current going beyond where
the skin depth is usually situated where it can continue on to flow on
the surface the path of least resistance.
Now the element resistance is of no concern as it is not now part of
the radiation circuit! Instead of two resistances we only have the
one which pertains to radiation, the sole object of a radiator.
Capacitance and inductance does nothing to advance radiation, tho it
is quite useful to have in other areas of science so why fool with it?
Magnetism and polarization only comes into the picture after
propagation is initiated when particles/electrons are ejected with
helical spin and acceleration which generates various movements,
fields etc after the fact.
Remember, for both transmission and receive the only object that can
break up the parts of electrical and magnetic fields together with
time varying current is the Faraday cage, so it is useful to start
with the cage function to get a true story of radiation. A radiator is
only efficient when you can present a flow path for applied current
where the
source becomes totally resistive.
I threw Bismuth in since it is part and parcel of the superconductor
scenario. grin." Super" has many pleasant conoctations for a salesman
to use.

K1TTT October 5th 10 11:58 PM

Antenna materials
 
On Oct 5, 8:16*pm, Art Unwin wrote:
On Oct 5, 2:12*pm, Owen Duffy wrote:



Art Unwin wrote in
Now you can't coat your elements with it but *if you have a solder
bath you can run copper wire thru it. The bismuth is brittle
but with the underlying copper it is stiff enough to stick it on the
antenna elements. I am assuming that the applied current would travel
along the bismuth coating instead of the aluminum and therefore should
increase gain for antennas that use coupling methods such as the Yagi
tho bandwidth may well suffer some what.
What do you think?


I am not sure whether you are considering coating the elements with
solder, tin, or bismuth... but they *all* degrade the RF resistance of an
aluminium element.


Nevertheless, hams are suckers for snake oil salesmen. Just look at the
products sold for antenna wire, open wire feed line and whips... so you
might have an opportunity there Art.


Owen


Hmmmm!
Isn't the idea to get current to flow on the surface
without the skin depth problem? For instance, when you make a Meander
antenna distributed loads are not existent as they cancel out. This
also means that skin depth is non existant as there is no magnetic
field. Thus there is nothing to prevent the current going beyond where
the skin depth is usually situated where it can continue on to flow on
the surface the path of least resistance.
Now the element resistance is of no concern as it is not now part of
the radiation circuit! * Instead of two resistances we only have the
one which pertains to radiation, the sole object of a radiator.
Capacitance and inductance does nothing to advance radiation, tho it
is quite useful to have in other areas of science so why fool with it?
Magnetism and polarization only comes into the picture after
propagation is initiated when particles/electrons are ejected with
helical spin and acceleration which generates various movements,
fields etc after the fact.
Remember, for both transmission and receive the only object that can
break up the parts of electrical and magnetic fields together with
time varying current is the Faraday cage, so it is useful to start
with the cage function to get a true story of radiation. A radiator is
only efficient when you can present a flow path for applied current
where the
source becomes totally resistive.
I threw Bismuth in since it is part and parcel of the superconductor
scenario. grin." Super" has many pleasant conoctations for a salesman
to use.


you see art, they just don't understand how the magical levitating
solar neutrinos will jump from the diamagnetic bismuth much more
efficiently than from aluminum... and they never will understand until
you can explain how my ferromagnetic vertical antennas that obviously
can't support a coating of your magical levitating solar neutrinos
could possibly work at all.

tom October 6th 10 01:04 AM

Antenna materials
 
On 10/5/2010 10:06 AM, Jim Higgins wrote:
On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 19:31:38 -0700 (PDT), Art Unwin
wrote:

Antennas usually are made of aluminum as copper is somewhat heavier
and silver and gold is to expensive. Since lead is now banned in a lot
of places especially with solder you can now buy solder that is doped
with Bismuth !
Now you can't coat your elements with it but if you have a solder
bath you can run copper wire thru it. The bismuth is brittle
but with the underlying copper it is stiff enough to stick it on the
antenna elements. I am assuming that the applied current would travel
along the bismuth coating instead of the aluminum and therefore should
increase gain for antennas that use coupling methods such as the Yagi
tho bandwidth may well suffer some what.
What do you think?


As we all know, you are CLUELESS! And you never check underlying facts.
Never. Ever.



I think the RF current flowing thru the crystallized bismuth will
result in the Peltier occurring and will cause the outer ends of the
elements to become very cold and the inner ends to become very hot and
that the heat will soften the inner portions and the cold will cause
heavy icing on the outer portions weighing them down considerably, the
combination resulting in the elements bending and destroying the
antenna.

`
As the Brothers Guinness said in their famous television ads - "BRILLIANT!!"

tom
K0TAR

Art Unwin October 6th 10 01:04 AM

Antenna materials
 
On Oct 5, 5:58*pm, K1TTT wrote:
On Oct 5, 8:16*pm, Art Unwin wrote:



On Oct 5, 2:12*pm, Owen Duffy wrote:


Art Unwin wrote in
Now you can't coat your elements with it but *if you have a solder
bath you can run copper wire thru it. The bismuth is brittle
but with the underlying copper it is stiff enough to stick it on the
antenna elements. I am assuming that the applied current would travel
along the bismuth coating instead of the aluminum and therefore should
increase gain for antennas that use coupling methods such as the Yagi
tho bandwidth may well suffer some what.
What do you think?


I am not sure whether you are considering coating the elements with
solder, tin, or bismuth... but they *all* degrade the RF resistance of an
aluminium element.


Nevertheless, hams are suckers for snake oil salesmen. Just look at the
products sold for antenna wire, open wire feed line and whips... so you
might have an opportunity there Art.


Owen


Hmmmm!
Isn't the idea to get current to flow on the surface
without the skin depth problem? For instance, when you make a Meander
antenna distributed loads are not existent as they cancel out. This
also means that skin depth is non existant as there is no magnetic
field. Thus there is nothing to prevent the current going beyond where
the skin depth is usually situated where it can continue on to flow on
the surface the path of least resistance.
Now the element resistance is of no concern as it is not now part of
the radiation circuit! * Instead of two resistances we only have the
one which pertains to radiation, the sole object of a radiator.
Capacitance and inductance does nothing to advance radiation, tho it
is quite useful to have in other areas of science so why fool with it?
Magnetism and polarization only comes into the picture after
propagation is initiated when particles/electrons are ejected with
helical spin and acceleration which generates various movements,
fields etc after the fact.
Remember, for both transmission and receive the only object that can
break up the parts of electrical and magnetic fields together with
time varying current is the Faraday cage, so it is useful to start
with the cage function to get a true story of radiation. A radiator is
only efficient when you can present a flow path for applied current
where the
source becomes totally resistive.
I threw Bismuth in since it is part and parcel of the superconductor
scenario. grin." Super" has many pleasant conoctations for a salesman
to use.


you see art, they just don't understand how the magical levitating
solar neutrinos will jump from the diamagnetic bismuth much more
efficiently than from aluminum... and they never will understand until
you can explain how my ferromagnetic vertical antennas that obviously
can't support a coating of your magical levitating solar neutrinos
could possibly work at all.


Ferromagnetic materials will work but the diamagnetic vectors get a
bit swamped in competition. Any good physics book will explain that
phenomina or alternatively look up wilkpedia.
Didn't you once state that physics was your major?
Your statements appears to put that as a matter of fiction. Why not
explain radiation from your point of view? You can have your posting
removed after a given time in case you embarrase yourself. Tom where
did all these weirdoes come from ?

K1TTT October 6th 10 01:39 AM

Antenna materials
 
On Oct 6, 12:04*am, Art Unwin wrote:
On Oct 5, 5:58*pm, K1TTT wrote:



On Oct 5, 8:16*pm, Art Unwin wrote:


On Oct 5, 2:12*pm, Owen Duffy wrote:


Art Unwin wrote in
Now you can't coat your elements with it but *if you have a solder
bath you can run copper wire thru it. The bismuth is brittle
but with the underlying copper it is stiff enough to stick it on the
antenna elements. I am assuming that the applied current would travel
along the bismuth coating instead of the aluminum and therefore should
increase gain for antennas that use coupling methods such as the Yagi
tho bandwidth may well suffer some what.
What do you think?


I am not sure whether you are considering coating the elements with
solder, tin, or bismuth... but they *all* degrade the RF resistance of an
aluminium element.


Nevertheless, hams are suckers for snake oil salesmen. Just look at the
products sold for antenna wire, open wire feed line and whips... so you
might have an opportunity there Art.


Owen


Hmmmm!
Isn't the idea to get current to flow on the surface
without the skin depth problem? For instance, when you make a Meander
antenna distributed loads are not existent as they cancel out. This
also means that skin depth is non existant as there is no magnetic
field. Thus there is nothing to prevent the current going beyond where
the skin depth is usually situated where it can continue on to flow on
the surface the path of least resistance.
Now the element resistance is of no concern as it is not now part of
the radiation circuit! * Instead of two resistances we only have the
one which pertains to radiation, the sole object of a radiator.
Capacitance and inductance does nothing to advance radiation, tho it
is quite useful to have in other areas of science so why fool with it?
Magnetism and polarization only comes into the picture after
propagation is initiated when particles/electrons are ejected with
helical spin and acceleration which generates various movements,
fields etc after the fact.
Remember, for both transmission and receive the only object that can
break up the parts of electrical and magnetic fields together with
time varying current is the Faraday cage, so it is useful to start
with the cage function to get a true story of radiation. A radiator is
only efficient when you can present a flow path for applied current
where the
source becomes totally resistive.
I threw Bismuth in since it is part and parcel of the superconductor
scenario. grin." Super" has many pleasant conoctations for a salesman
to use.


you see art, they just don't understand how the magical levitating
solar neutrinos will jump from the diamagnetic bismuth much more
efficiently than from aluminum... and they never will understand until
you can explain how my ferromagnetic vertical antennas that obviously
can't support a coating of your magical levitating solar neutrinos
could possibly work at all.


Ferromagnetic materials will work but the diamagnetic vectors get a
bit swamped in competition. Any good physics book will explain that
phenomina or alternatively look up wilkpedia.
Didn't you once state that physics was your major?
Your statements appears to put that as a matter of fiction. Why not
explain radiation from your point of view? You can have your posting
removed after a given time in case you embarrase yourself. *Tom where
did all these weirdoes come from ?


no, i'm an ee, not a scientist... my company wanted to change my title
to scientist once, i told them only if i could put 'mad' in front of
it and they let me keep the engineer title. I have to go with the
writings of the masters as mr. b would put it, except i got with the
final set of maxwell's equations as published in books like jackson
and other contemporary writers... which, by the way, do explain that
gauss'es law is a part of maxwell's equations and is a dynamic
equation even without the explicit 't' in it.


Art Unwin October 6th 10 02:07 AM

Antenna materials
 
On Oct 5, 7:04*pm, tom wrote:
On 10/5/2010 10:06 AM, Jim Higgins wrote:

On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 19:31:38 -0700 (PDT), Art Unwin
*wrote:


Antennas usually are made of aluminum as copper is somewhat heavier
and silver and gold is to expensive. Since lead is now banned in a lot
of places especially with solder you can now buy solder that is doped
with Bismuth !
Now you can't coat your elements with it but *if you have a solder
bath you can run copper wire thru it. The bismuth is brittle
but with the underlying copper it is stiff enough to stick it on the
antenna elements. I am assuming that the applied current would travel
along the bismuth coating instead of the aluminum and therefore should
increase gain for antennas that use coupling methods such as the Yagi
tho bandwidth may well suffer some what.
What do you think?


As we all know, you are CLUELESS! *And you never check underlying facts..
* Never. *Ever.



I think the RF current flowing thru the crystallized bismuth will
result in the Peltier occurring and will cause the outer ends of the
elements to become very cold and the inner ends to become very hot and
that the heat will soften the inner portions and the cold will cause
heavy icing on the outer portions weighing them down considerably, the
combination resulting in the elements bending and destroying the
antenna.


`
As the Brothers Guinness said in their famous television ads - "BRILLIANT!!"

tom
K0TAR


Tom, you like many others, feel that your postings are like a private
E mail, but it is not. Your writings
and past postings are available for all to see and judge what sort of
person you are. You continually embarrase yourself. I invite all to
view your past postings to see what manner of man you really are.
As for the Peltier effect that you are referring to, it is you who
needs to check the facts as to who posted that. It certainly was not
I. But if you have the real facts then spit it out to show that you
know them and can prove it, until then you are spitting into the wind.
So Tom back to you. What are the "real" facts that you wish to point
to and be specific with respect to the connecting physics for
supporting data? You may have a open physics book at your side when
responding so you can read up on diamagnetic, levitation, neutrons etc
since it is very clear that you were able to jump semesters at will
leaving large holes in your educational standing which does not allow
you to debate in a reasonable fashion.
OR
You can continue with verbal bullying without
contribution or follow up discussion with other members of the group.

Art Unwin October 6th 10 02:39 AM

Antenna materials
 
On Oct 5, 7:39*pm, K1TTT wrote:
On Oct 6, 12:04*am, Art Unwin wrote:



On Oct 5, 5:58*pm, K1TTT wrote:


On Oct 5, 8:16*pm, Art Unwin wrote:


On Oct 5, 2:12*pm, Owen Duffy wrote:


Art Unwin wrote in
Now you can't coat your elements with it but *if you have a solder
bath you can run copper wire thru it. The bismuth is brittle
but with the underlying copper it is stiff enough to stick it on the
antenna elements. I am assuming that the applied current would travel
along the bismuth coating instead of the aluminum and therefore should
increase gain for antennas that use coupling methods such as the Yagi
tho bandwidth may well suffer some what.
What do you think?


I am not sure whether you are considering coating the elements with
solder, tin, or bismuth... but they *all* degrade the RF resistance of an
aluminium element.


Nevertheless, hams are suckers for snake oil salesmen. Just look at the
products sold for antenna wire, open wire feed line and whips... so you
might have an opportunity there Art.


Owen


Hmmmm!
Isn't the idea to get current to flow on the surface
without the skin depth problem? For instance, when you make a Meander
antenna distributed loads are not existent as they cancel out. This
also means that skin depth is non existant as there is no magnetic
field. Thus there is nothing to prevent the current going beyond where
the skin depth is usually situated where it can continue on to flow on
the surface the path of least resistance.
Now the element resistance is of no concern as it is not now part of
the radiation circuit! * Instead of two resistances we only have the
one which pertains to radiation, the sole object of a radiator.
Capacitance and inductance does nothing to advance radiation, tho it
is quite useful to have in other areas of science so why fool with it?
Magnetism and polarization only comes into the picture after
propagation is initiated when particles/electrons are ejected with
helical spin and acceleration which generates various movements,
fields etc after the fact.
Remember, for both transmission and receive the only object that can
break up the parts of electrical and magnetic fields together with
time varying current is the Faraday cage, so it is useful to start
with the cage function to get a true story of radiation. A radiator is
only efficient when you can present a flow path for applied current
where the
source becomes totally resistive.
I threw Bismuth in since it is part and parcel of the superconductor
scenario. grin." Super" has many pleasant conoctations for a salesman
to use.


you see art, they just don't understand how the magical levitating
solar neutrinos will jump from the diamagnetic bismuth much more
efficiently than from aluminum... and they never will understand until
you can explain how my ferromagnetic vertical antennas that obviously
can't support a coating of your magical levitating solar neutrinos
could possibly work at all.


Ferromagnetic materials will work but the diamagnetic vectors get a
bit swamped in competition. Any good physics book will explain that
phenomina or alternatively look up wilkpedia.
Didn't you once state that physics was your major?
Your statements appears to put that as a matter of fiction. Why not
explain radiation from your point of view? You can have your posting
removed after a given time in case you embarrase yourself. *Tom where
did all these weirdoes come from ?


no, i'm an ee, not a scientist... my company wanted to change my title
to scientist once, i told them only if i could put 'mad' in front of
it and they let me keep the engineer title. *I have to go with the
writings of the masters as mr. b would put it, except i got with the
final set of maxwell's equations as published in books like jackson
and other contemporary writers... which, by the way, do explain that
gauss's law is a part of maxwell's equations and is a dynamic
equation even without the explicit 't' in it.


So what is your point exactly? Are you holding on to
radiation by "waves" instead of "particles" or what?
What is the specific relevant law of Gauss that you are referring to?
Show me specifically what Jackson states so I can get a handle on the
specific problem in question. I have no idea what is troubling you
whether it be levitation which you call "magical", "Neutrinos" which
occupy every cubic metre in the atmosphere on Earth. Or, the "double
slot" experiment which opposes a particular law of Gauss. Spit it out
specifically and I and the rest of the group can then discuss it. As
an aside, Gauss's work is in the form of cgs units which are not the
same as Maxwell's units so you have to be careful as how you explain
"this matches that" in your response when and if it comes up.
Regards
Art

tom October 6th 10 03:41 AM

Antenna materials
 
On 10/5/2010 8:07 PM, Art Unwin wrote:
On Oct 5, 7:04 pm, wrote:
On 10/5/2010 10:06 AM, Jim Higgins wrote:
I think the RF current flowing thru the crystallized bismuth will
result in the Peltier occurring and will cause the outer ends of the
elements to become very cold and the inner ends to become very hot and
that the heat will soften the inner portions and the cold will cause
heavy icing on the outer portions weighing them down considerably, the
combination resulting in the elements bending and destroying the
antenna.


`
As the Brothers Guinness said in their famous television ads - "BRILLIANT!!"

tom
K0TAR


Tom, you like many others, feel that your postings are like a private
E mail, but it is not. Your writings
and past postings are available for all to see and judge what sort of
person you are. You continually embarrase yourself. I invite all to
view your past postings to see what manner of man you really are.
As for the Peltier effect that you are referring to, it is you who
needs to check the facts as to who posted that. It certainly was not
I. But if you have the real facts then spit it out to show that you
know them and can prove it, until then you are spitting into the wind.
So Tom back to you. What are the "real" facts that you wish to point
to and be specific with respect to the connecting physics for
supporting data? You may have a open physics book at your side when
responding so you can read up on diamagnetic, levitation, neutrons etc
since it is very clear that you were able to jump semesters at will
leaving large holes in your educational standing which does not allow
you to debate in a reasonable fashion.
OR
You can continue with verbal bullying without
contribution or follow up discussion with other members of the group.


Anyone reading can see you responded, mostly anyway, to Jim, not to me,
although I can guess that your feelings are pointed my way regardless.

Such is life to be tilted at by a Quixote pretender.

tom
K0TAR

Art Unwin October 6th 10 03:52 AM

Antenna materials
 
On Oct 5, 8:39*pm, Art Unwin wrote:
On Oct 5, 7:39*pm, K1TTT wrote:



On Oct 6, 12:04*am, Art Unwin wrote:


On Oct 5, 5:58*pm, K1TTT wrote:


On Oct 5, 8:16*pm, Art Unwin wrote:


On Oct 5, 2:12*pm, Owen Duffy wrote:


Art Unwin wrote in
Now you can't coat your elements with it but *if you have a solder
bath you can run copper wire thru it. The bismuth is brittle
but with the underlying copper it is stiff enough to stick it on the
antenna elements. I am assuming that the applied current would travel
along the bismuth coating instead of the aluminum and therefore should
increase gain for antennas that use coupling methods such as the Yagi
tho bandwidth may well suffer some what.
What do you think?


I am not sure whether you are considering coating the elements with
solder, tin, or bismuth... but they *all* degrade the RF resistance of an
aluminium element.


Nevertheless, hams are suckers for snake oil salesmen. Just look at the
products sold for antenna wire, open wire feed line and whips.... so you
might have an opportunity there Art.


Owen


Hmmmm!
Isn't the idea to get current to flow on the surface
without the skin depth problem? For instance, when you make a Meander
antenna distributed loads are not existent as they cancel out. This
also means that skin depth is non existant as there is no magnetic
field. Thus there is nothing to prevent the current going beyond where
the skin depth is usually situated where it can continue on to flow on
the surface the path of least resistance.
Now the element resistance is of no concern as it is not now part of
the radiation circuit! * Instead of two resistances we only have the
one which pertains to radiation, the sole object of a radiator.
Capacitance and inductance does nothing to advance radiation, tho it
is quite useful to have in other areas of science so why fool with it?
Magnetism and polarization only comes into the picture after
propagation is initiated when particles/electrons are ejected with
helical spin and acceleration which generates various movements,
fields etc after the fact.
Remember, for both transmission and receive the only object that can
break up the parts of electrical and magnetic fields together with
time varying current is the Faraday cage, so it is useful to start
with the cage function to get a true story of radiation. A radiator is
only efficient when you can present a flow path for applied current
where the
source becomes totally resistive.
I threw Bismuth in since it is part and parcel of the superconductor
scenario. grin." Super" has many pleasant conoctations for a salesman
to use.


you see art, they just don't understand how the magical levitating
solar neutrinos will jump from the diamagnetic bismuth much more
efficiently than from aluminum... and they never will understand until
you can explain how my ferromagnetic vertical antennas that obviously
can't support a coating of your magical levitating solar neutrinos
could possibly work at all.


Ferromagnetic materials will work but the diamagnetic vectors get a
bit swamped in competition. Any good physics book will explain that
phenomina or alternatively look up wilkpedia.
Didn't you once state that physics was your major?
Your statements appears to put that as a matter of fiction. Why not
explain radiation from your point of view? You can have your posting
removed after a given time in case you embarrase yourself. *Tom where
did all these weirdoes come from ?


no, i'm an ee, not a scientist... my company wanted to change my title
to scientist once, i told them only if i could put 'mad' in front of
it and they let me keep the engineer title. *I have to go with the
writings of the masters as mr. b would put it, except i got with the
final set of maxwell's equations as published in books like jackson
and other contemporary writers... which, by the way, do explain that
gauss's law is a part of maxwell's equations and is a dynamic
equation even without the explicit 't' in it.


So what is your point exactly? Are you holding on to
radiation by "waves" instead of "particles" or what?
What is the specific relevant law of Gauss that you are referring to?
Show me specifically what Jackson states so I can get a handle on the
specific problem in question. I have no idea what is troubling you
whether it be levitation which you call "magical", "Neutrinos" which
occupy every cubic metre in the atmosphere on Earth. Or, the "double
slot" experiment which opposes a particular law of Gauss. Spit it out
specifically and I and the rest of the group can then discuss it. As
an aside, Gauss's work is in the form of cgs units which are not the
same as Maxwell's units so you have to be careful as how you explain
"this matches that" in your response when and if it comes up.
Regards
Art


With respect to the works of the Masters which one could include the
books by Jackson and others.
They all state that Gauss;'s law on MAGNETISM
was included in Maxwell's laws or equations on radiation. I know of no
text book that outlines the connection between ":statics" and the
equations of Maxwell. A debate was held on this forum on the
connection between statics and Maxwell which was held in denial by
all. After a year or so the statement was made that" the Jackson book
outlined the connection between Gauss and Maxwell" so the connection
of statics was wrongly connected to the Gaussian law on" magnetics"
and not his laws on "statics.".
The boundary laws of Maxwell which is the basis
of all of his equations are also those of statics which, when made
dynamic, are the one and the same equation arrived at by Maxwell . I
know of no mention in any book on radiation that equates as fact that
classical physics mathematically supports the position of particles as
the root of propagation which is in agreement with Einsteins laws on
Relativity. Point being that mass is required for "acceleration of
charge" as with particles./ electrons
and to my knowledge has not been stated as the Gaussian connection to
Maxwell..... anywhere!
I would appreciate it if you or anybody can point to where I am in
error and where your position can be determined as credible.
Regards
Art.

[email protected] October 6th 10 05:35 AM

Antenna materials
 
On Oct 4, 9:31*pm, Art Unwin wrote:

What do you think?


It's quite well known that the best antennas are built from zircon
encrusted wire, which is trimmed using only zircon encrusted
tweezers.
If you can look at the wire ends on a sunny day and can see
noticeable tweezer glint, you know you have a world class
antenna system worthy of the masters praise and endorsement.





John Smith October 6th 10 05:56 AM

Antenna materials
 
On 10/5/2010 9:35 PM, wrote:

...
It's quite well known that the best antennas are built from zircon
encrusted wire, which is trimmed using only zircon encrusted
tweezers.
If you can look at the wire ends on a sunny day and can see
noticeable tweezer glint, you know you have a world class
antenna system worthy of the masters praise and endorsement.


WOW! Another one of those which you always wondered about, but were too
ashamed to ask about. I just knew there were others like me who must
have wondered about it. Now that you have just tossed it out like so
much fact ... I realize I was silly not to have asked.

We are much better off for having had you share that with the group.

Many thanks,
JS :-)


Szczepan Bialek October 6th 10 08:47 AM

Antenna materials
 

"Art Unwin" wrote
...



So what is your point exactly? Are you holding on to

radiation by "waves" instead of "particles" or what?


In reality are the continuous flow and the oscillatory flow. Flow of the
particles. The oscillatry flow is the wave.
In the ink printer works the oscillatory flow. In antennas and the space
also.

With respect to the works of the Masters which one could include the

books by Jackson and others.
They all state that Gauss;'s law on MAGNETISM

was included in Maxwell's laws or equations on radiation. I know of no
text book that outlines the connection between ":statics" and the
equations of Maxwell. A debate was held on this forum on the
connection between statics and Maxwell which was held in denial by
all. After a year or so the statement was made that" the Jackson book
outlined the connection between Gauss and Maxwell" so the connection
of statics was wrongly connected to the Gaussian law on" magnetics"
and not his laws on "statics.".
The boundary laws of Maxwell which is the basis

of all of his equations are also those of statics which, when made
dynamic, are the one and the same equation arrived at by Maxwell . I
know of no mention in any book on radiation that equates as fact that
classical physics mathematically supports the position of particles as
the root of propagation which is in agreement with Einsteins laws on
Relativity. Point being that mass is required for "acceleration of
charge" as with particles./ electrons
and to my knowledge has not been stated as the Gaussian connection to
Maxwell..... anywhere!
I would appreciate it if you or anybody can point to where I am in

error and where your position can be determined as credible.

"Maxwell equations" have nothing common with Maxwell.
http://www.ivorcatt.com/2810.htm

"Heaviside said that mathematics was an experimental science. He organised
Maxwell's mathematical work into the four equations which we now call
"Maxwell's Equations".
S*



JIMMIE October 6th 10 12:31 PM

Antenna materials
 
On Oct 4, 10:31*pm, Art Unwin wrote:
Antennas usually are made of aluminum as copper is somewhat heavier
and silver and gold is to expensive. Since lead is now banned in a lot
of places especially with solder you can now buy solder that is doped
with Bismuth !
Now you can't coat your elements with it but *if you have a solder
bath you can run copper wire thru it. The bismuth is brittle
but with the underlying copper it is stiff enough to stick it on the
antenna elements. I am assuming that the applied current would travel
along the bismuth coating instead of the aluminum and therefore should
increase gain for antennas that use coupling methods such as the Yagi
tho bandwidth may well suffer some what.
What do you think?


Obviously a reduction in IR losses will improve any antenna. Art how
much do you thing making an antenna out of silver instead of aluminum
would reduce the IR losses.
Jimmie

[email protected] October 6th 10 04:47 PM

Antenna materials
 
Szczepan Bialek wrote:

In reality are the continuous flow and the oscillatory flow. Flow of the
particles. The oscillatry flow is the wave.


In reality you are a babbling kook.


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[email protected] October 6th 10 04:54 PM

Antenna materials
 
Art Unwin wrote:
Antennas usually are made of aluminum as copper is somewhat heavier
and silver and gold is to expensive. Since lead is now banned in a lot
of places especially with solder you can now buy solder that is doped
with Bismuth !
Now you can't coat your elements with it but if you have a solder
bath you can run copper wire thru it. The bismuth is brittle
but with the underlying copper it is stiff enough to stick it on the
antenna elements. I am assuming that the applied current would travel
along the bismuth coating instead of the aluminum and therefore should
increase gain for antennas that use coupling methods such as the Yagi
tho bandwidth may well suffer some what.
What do you think?


Since the conductivity of aluminum is about 43 times higher than that of
bisimuth, I think you are babbling.


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John Smith October 6th 10 05:41 PM

Antenna materials
 
On 10/6/2010 8:47 AM, wrote:
Szczepan wrote:

In reality are the continuous flow and the oscillatory flow. Flow of the
particles. The oscillatry flow is the wave.


In reality you are a babbling kook.



Too much ayawaska me thinks ... the religious "meaning" in antennas just
doesn't exist ...

Regards,
JS


Michael Coslo October 6th 10 05:55 PM

Antenna materials
 
wrote:
Art Unwin wrote:
Antennas usually are made of aluminum as copper is somewhat heavier
and silver and gold is to expensive. Since lead is now banned in a lot
of places especially with solder you can now buy solder that is doped
with Bismuth !
Now you can't coat your elements with it but if you have a solder
bath you can run copper wire thru it. The bismuth is brittle
but with the underlying copper it is stiff enough to stick it on the
antenna elements. I am assuming that the applied current would travel
along the bismuth coating instead of the aluminum and therefore should
increase gain for antennas that use coupling methods such as the Yagi
tho bandwidth may well suffer some what.
What do you think?


Since the conductivity of aluminum is about 43 times higher than that of
bisimuth, I think you are babbling.


Yeah, I too some of that from my neighbors yard, tried to make an antenna.

Cops came and took me away.

When I asked them why, they said it was none of my Bismuth.

- Mike -

Richard Clark October 6th 10 06:24 PM

Antenna materials
 
On Wed, 6 Oct 2010 04:31:55 -0700 (PDT), JIMMIE
wrote:

Obviously a reduction in IR losses will improve any antenna. Art how
much do you thing making an antenna out of silver instead of aluminum
would reduce the IR losses.


InfraRed loss in an antenna?

or perhaps:

IR Voltage Loss in an antenna?

or perhaps:

IR Power Loss in an antenna?

**************

Yes, IR loss is the entire point (and positive characteristic) of an
antenna, especially if R is radiation resistance.

Hmmm, IR loss could be said to be a naturally occurring fact of life
along the length of any antenna if we consider the distribution of
potential.

Ouch, InfraRed loss could burn you - but it would be curious to note
that if an antenna is truly an equal performer (transmit/receive) what
would we hear from the antenna when the sun rises in the morning?

As to the receive-mode phenomenon of this sunrise observation, if that
antenna were coated with diamagnetic water (dew), then we would
observe particles leaping (-um- steaming) off of it (with sizzle)!

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC

Cecil Moore October 6th 10 06:36 PM

Antenna materials
 
On Oct 6, 2:47*am, "Szczepan Bialek" wrote:
In reality are the continuous flow and the oscillatory flow. Flow of the
particles. The oscillatry flow is the wave.


Seems you have it backwards. The slow-moving free electrons oscillate
back and forth at HF, moving forward and backward very little
(calculate it for yourself). The energy flow from source to load is in
the form of photons/fields/waves traveling at the speed of light
which is impossible for electrons. As far as ham radio antenna
functions go, electrons and photons are the only things known to
physics to be active in transferring and radiating RF energy.
--
73, Cecil, w5dxp.com

Szczepan Bialek October 6th 10 07:13 PM

Antenna materials
 

"Cecil Moore" wrote
...
On Oct 6, 2:47 am, "Szczepan Bialek" wrote:
In reality are the continuous flow and the oscillatory flow. Flow of the

particles. The oscillatry flow is the wave.


Seems you have it backwards. The slow-moving free electrons oscillate

back and forth at HF, moving forward and backward very little
(calculate it for yourself).

Symmetrical back and forth take place only in the simple equations.
In EACH wave the forth is stronger than back.

The energy flow from source to load is in

the form of photons/fields/waves traveling at the speed of light
which is impossible for electrons.

Photons in a wire?

As far as ham radio antenna

functions go, electrons and photons are the only things known to
physics to be active in transferring and radiating RF energy.

Electrons were discovered. Photons are the products of speculations.
S*



[email protected] October 6th 10 07:28 PM

Antenna materials
 
Szczepan Bialek wrote:

"Cecil Moore" wrote
...
On Oct 6, 2:47 am, "Szczepan Bialek" wrote:
In reality are the continuous flow and the oscillatory flow. Flow of the

particles. The oscillatry flow is the wave.


Seems you have it backwards. The slow-moving free electrons oscillate

back and forth at HF, moving forward and backward very little
(calculate it for yourself).

Symmetrical back and forth take place only in the simple equations.
In EACH wave the forth is stronger than back.


Babbling, work salad, nonsense.

The energy flow from source to load is in

the form of photons/fields/waves traveling at the speed of light
which is impossible for electrons.

Photons in a wire?


No, you idiot.

As far as ham radio antenna

functions go, electrons and photons are the only things known to
physics to be active in transferring and radiating RF energy.

Electrons were discovered. Photons are the products of speculations.
S*


No, you idiot.

Photons have been observed.


--
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Richard Clark October 6th 10 08:13 PM

Antenna materials
 
Symmetrical back and forth take place only in the simple equations.
In EACH wave the forth is stronger than back.


The intellectual product of a Stalinist education system.

Or the most lucid manifesto available from the Tea Party.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC

tom October 7th 10 01:36 AM

Antenna materials
 
On 10/6/2010 2:13 PM, Richard Clark wrote:
Symmetrical back and forth take place only in the simple equations.
In EACH wave the forth is stronger than back.


The intellectual product of a Stalinist education system.

Or the most lucid manifesto available from the Tea Party.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC


Ah, I almost forgot, it's election time.

Could you please let it go just one election season? It is boring and
repetitious crap and way beneath your normal responses.

tom
K0TAR

tom October 7th 10 01:45 AM

Antenna materials
 
On 10/6/2010 12:24 PM, Richard Clark wrote:
On Wed, 6 Oct 2010 04:31:55 -0700 (PDT), JIMMIE
wrote:

Obviously a reduction in IR losses will improve any antenna. Art how
much do you thing making an antenna out of silver instead of aluminum
would reduce the IR losses.


InfraRed loss in an antenna?

or perhaps:

IR Voltage Loss in an antenna?

or perhaps:

IR Power Loss in an antenna?

**************

Yes, IR loss is the entire point (and positive characteristic) of an
antenna, especially if R is radiation resistance.

Hmmm, IR loss could be said to be a naturally occurring fact of life
along the length of any antenna if we consider the distribution of
potential.

Ouch, InfraRed loss could burn you - but it would be curious to note
that if an antenna is truly an equal performer (transmit/receive) what
would we hear from the antenna when the sun rises in the morning?

As to the receive-mode phenomenon of this sunrise observation, if that
antenna were coated with diamagnetic water (dew), then we would
observe particles leaping (-um- steaming) off of it (with sizzle)!

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC


What an idea! IR night vision could be used to tune antennas!

I redact my previous obfuscation against you Art. You are BRIALLAINT!

tom
K0TAR

John Smith October 7th 10 01:53 AM

Antenna materials
 
On 10/6/2010 5:45 PM, tom wrote:

...
What an idea! IR night vision could be used to tune antennas!

I redact my previous obfuscation against you Art. You are BRIALLAINT!

tom
K0TAR


First consuming Ayawaska and then putting on a 3d pair of glasses
actually allows you to see the photons shooting out from the antenna. I
believe it is the "time dilation effect" from the Ayawaska which is
responsible for this, seemingly, "superman ability" occurring.

As always, first consult your local shaman or witchdoctor before taking
Ayawaska ...

Regards,
JS

Szczepan Bialek October 7th 10 09:05 AM

Antenna materials
 

"Richard Clark" wrote
...
Symmetrical back and forth take place only in the simple equations.
In EACH wave the forth is stronger than back.


The intellectual product of a Stalinist education system.


"It was shown by Stokes that in a water wave the particles of fluid possess,
apart from their orbital motion, a steady second-order drift velocity
(usually called the mass-transport velocity)."

In all schools the second-order effects are neglected.
In Stokes time no radio. But the above apply to all waves.

You should start with the selfeducation.
S*



Szczepan Bialek October 7th 10 09:26 AM

Antenna materials
 

"tom" wrote
. net...
On 10/6/2010 2:13 PM, Richard Clark wrote:
Symmetrical back and forth take place only in the simple equations.
In EACH wave the forth is stronger than back.


The intellectual product of a Stalinist education system.

Or the most lucid manifesto available from the Tea Party.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC


Ah, I almost forgot, it's electron time.


And the field emissions.

Could you please let it go just one electron season? It is boring and
repetitious crap and way beneath your normal responses.


Electrons, mass transport and the field emission are reality. EM is a myth.
S*



John Smith October 7th 10 04:22 PM

Antenna materials
 
On 10/7/2010 1:05 AM, Szczepan Bialek wrote:

...
"It was shown by Stokes that in a water wave the particles of fluid possess,
apart from their orbital motion, a steady second-order drift velocity
(usually called the mass-transport velocity)."
...


Sounds like you are using a stream of salt water as a radiator! Is the
pump Bismuth coated to prevent corrosion?

Regards,
JS

Richard Clark October 7th 10 05:22 PM

Antenna materials
 
On Thu, 7 Oct 2010 10:26:49 +0200, "Szczepan Bialek"
wrote:
"tom" wrote
Ah, I almost forgot, it's electron time.


Evidence of the revisionist Stalinist influence.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC

[email protected] October 7th 10 05:31 PM

Antenna materials
 
Szczepan Bialek wrote:

"Richard Clark" wrote
...
Symmetrical back and forth take place only in the simple equations.
In EACH wave the forth is stronger than back.


The intellectual product of a Stalinist education system.


"It was shown by Stokes that in a water wave the particles of fluid possess,
apart from their orbital motion, a steady second-order drift velocity
(usually called the mass-transport velocity)."

In all schools the second-order effects are neglected.
In Stokes time no radio. But the above apply to all waves.

You should start with the selfeducation.
S*


Babbling, kook word salad.


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Richard Clark October 7th 10 05:35 PM

Antenna materials
 
On Thu, 7 Oct 2010 10:05:40 +0200, "Szczepan Bialek"
wrote:

In all schools the second-order effects are neglected.


Rabble of the lumpenproletariat. Continuing to wander in the fog is a
sure sign of never achieving class consciousness, and is therefore
worthless in the context of revolutionary struggle.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC

Man-wai Chang October 7th 10 05:41 PM

Antenna materials
 
Since the conductivity of aluminum is about 43 times higher than that of
bisimuth, I think you are babbling.


You meant I could use the aluminum window frames as a big antenna? :)

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Szczepan Bialek October 7th 10 06:35 PM

Antenna materials
 

"John Smith" wrote
...
On 10/7/2010 1:05 AM, Szczepan Bialek wrote:

...
"It was shown by Stokes that in a water wave the particles of fluid
possess,
apart from their orbital motion, a steady second-order drift velocity
(usually called the mass-transport velocity)."
...


Sounds like you are using a stream of salt water as a radiator! Is the
pump Bismuth coated to prevent corrosion?


In each radiator is a stream of electrons. The oscillating pump is in the
transmitter. But where is the tank with the electrons?

It is in the buried or elevated radials. R. Roy wrote: "If the earth was a
perfect conductor then those currents could travel
through the earth without loss, and a single, short ground rod would
serve as an electrical reference point for the r-f current flowing in
the antenna system. The sum of those r-f currents flowing in the
earth around the monopole, and collected by that ground rod will be
equal to the base current in the 1/4-wave, series-fed monopole"

The soil is different in each place. The air is similar. So the elevated
radials are universal. They catch the electrons from the air.
S*




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