Reg Edwards wrote:
Antenna conductors ARE transmission lines and the same sort of
calculations apply.

You're right, Reg. Without reflections from the ends of a
dipole, the feedpoint impedance would be hundreds of ohms.
A standing wave antenna is like a lossy transmission line
where the loss is to radiation. And the SWR on a 1/2WL dipole
standing wave antenna is quite high - in the neighborhood of
20:1.
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73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp


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