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Lostgallifreyan wrote:

It's totally new to me. I just looked at Google images for a few minutes.
Nice looking constructions. The thing that struck me most was your
description of directionality, non-resonance (at lest, not standing wave),
long compared to wavelength, and termination by a resistance. All these
things can be said of a Bevarage too, but they're obviously very different
too. I don't know what the relation is.

There's a nice discussion of various traveling-wave antennas in
Laporte's classic "Radio Antenna Engineering" text.

http://snulbug.mtview.ca.us/books/Ra...naEngineering/

(David Platt) wrote in news:hk20ib-
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http://snulbug.mtview.ca.us/books/Ra...naEngineering/

Thanks, that might be a way in for me. My eyesight won't stand a lot these
days, so concise is good, which that one is.

Lostgallifreyan wrote in
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concise is good, which that one is.


I might be wrong about that. I really do need quick guides these days, my
days of long reading are long gone, it physically hurts now even when I can
do it at all.

Lostgallifreyan wrote in
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Lostgallifreyan wrote in
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concise is good, which that one is.


I might be wrong about that. I really do need quick guides these days,
my days of long reading are long gone, it physically hurts now even when
I can do it at all.


Well, it's a neatly made copy, but a huge tome, and I think maybe I got very
lucky in hitting one paragraph by accident, paraphrsed so:
"A rhombic antenna is only efficient when matched with the propogation medium
for specific frequency". In opther words, a good plan for transmission
efficiently in some direction at some frequency, but well beyond my scope for
quick experimental listening efforts.