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The answer is 3 mW.
Any version of EZNEC can be used to do this calculation. The demo program will yield slightly less accurate results because of the limited number of segments(*). I modeled two vertical wires, 1 meter high and 1 mm diameter, spaced 1 km apart, at 20 MHz, over perfect ground. The reported feedpoint impedance varies with segmentation, from 1.988 - j952.3 ohms at 10 segments/wire to 1.72 - j882 ohms at 100 segments/wire. Accuracy is likely to degrade with a larger number of segments, since even 100 results in segment length/diameter ratio less than NEC recommendations. I used 100 segments/wire for the test. One of the choices in EZNEC of far field strength reporting is in V/m at 1 kW input and 1 km distance. For this antenna, EZNEC reports 300.8 V/m (RMS) at ground level. EZNEC also permits setting a fixed power input, so this was set to 1 kW. The resulting source voltage and current are 21270 V. and 24.12 A. respectively. A load of 1.72 + j882 ohms was placed at the base of the second vertical. EZNEC reports a power of 3.234 mW being dissipated in this load. Care has to be used when analyzing the current induced in one antenna by another which is distant using numerical calculations. Errors can occur due to truncation and other causes when the ratio of distances between the two antennas is great relative to the segment lengths or to segment distances within one of the antennas. However, EZNEC gets virtually identical results when using mixed and double precision NEC-2 calculating engines, which indicates that the limit hasn't been reached and that numerical problems aren't occurring. (Another check which can be done is to reduce the distance between antennas by a factor of two. The power in the load resistance should increase by a factor of four.) Another critical matter is the setting of the load reactance. The reactance is many times larger than the resistance, so a slight error in setting its value will result in a large difference in load current and therefore load dissipation. For example, if the segmentation is changed from 100 to 50 segments/wire and no other change is made to the model, the reported load power becomes 0.3917 watts. The reason is that the reported source impedance is now 1.756 - j891.4 ohms, while the load is still 1.72 + j882 ohms. Changing the load to the proper conjugately matched value of 1.756 + 891.4 ohms returns the load power to the correct value of 3.24 mW. All given, I'd trust the reported load power to be easily within 10% of the theoretically correct value. (*) Results for 10 segments/wire are 1.988 - j952.3 ohms for the source impedance, 300.71 V/m field strength at 1 km for 1 kW, and 3.24 mW in a conjugately matched load impedance in the distant vertical. Roy Lewallen, W7EL |
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