gareth wrote:
"gareth" wrote in message
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Ignoring, for the moment, travelling wave antenna, and restricting
discussion to standing wave antennae ...

A wave is launched, and radiates SOME of the power, and suffers
both I2R losses and dielectric and permeability losses associated
with creating and collapsing the near field.

Of course, it goes without saying that the wave was already travelling up
the feeder
and it diffracts along the elements of the antenna, rather than being
launched from
the feedpoint!

Nope; there is an electric field in a feed line (other than wave guide)
but no electromagnetic field.

As a problem for the student, how big would a wave guide have to be to
be able to transfer 7 Mhz?

About the only antenaa where a "wave is launched" is a dielectric lens
antenna with a wave guide feed.

Of course, at the other end of the wave guide is an antenna to which
voltage is applied, which causes current flow in the antenna, which
causes an electromagnetic field to be created in the wave guide which
then flows to the antenna.


--
Jim Pennino