That's correct - it's charge acceleration and deceleration which causes 
radiation. If you take a long wire and terminate it in its 
characteristic impedance it will radiate - there doesn't need to be a 
discontinuity at the end. Same for a terminated Rhombic.
Steve G3TXQ
On 19/04/2013 23:27, shristov wrote:
 This is incorrect and misleading. Whenever an AC current flows on a 
wire, there is an accompanying and inseparable AC electromagnetic 
field surrounding the wire. And the said AC field propagates in all 
directions. It is as simple as that. No special conditions are needed, 
and one doesn't have to do anything special in order to provoke 
radiation. "Radiation" would be easier to comprehend if we stopped 
calling it "radiation", and started calling it "disturbance 
propagation", what it actually is. 73, Sinisa YT1NT, VE3EA 
 
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