H. Adam Stevens wrote:
when they're resonant and match the transmission line
they ain't no reflections back down the line
it's all gone to somewhere else

H., there are standing waves all over a dipole antenna.
Its traveling-wave feedpoint impedance is about 600 ohms.
Only the reflections from each end of a dipole lower the
feedpoint impedance to 50 ohms or so. The reflected current
arrives back in phase at the feedpoint and the reflected
voltage arrives back out of phase. You can thank destructive
interference for the low feedpoint impedance of a dipole.

If you don't like reflections, you don't like a dipole and
should probably try a terminated rhombic. :-)
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73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp



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