Especially it doesn't account for the semi-extreme tapering to a pencil
point on F12's!
73, Jerry
----- Original Message -----
From: Stu Greene <wa2moe@doitnow.com>
To: EUGENE SMAR <SPELUNK.SUENO@prodigy.net>; <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2001 8:42 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Antenna surface area
> At 09:06 PM 6/9/01 -0400, you wrote:
>
> > Area = L X diameter for the exposed surface of each piece of aluminum,
> > simple as that.
>
>
>
> Shouldn't the calculation be L X (Diameter X pi) ? Or length times
> circumference?
>
> And this doesn't reflect tapering of the elements.
>
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