[TenTec] was OT: Indoor Antenna: re B&W type terminated dipoles
Stuart Rohre
rohre at arlut.utexas.edu
Wed Dec 8 21:28:27 PST 2010
The efficiency of a dipole is nearly 100 per cent or 1.0. Depending on
construction, it might be 99 per cent, (0,99, 0,98, etc.) It is as
others stated a statement of power minus losses, giving what is radiated.
A half wave dipole converts almost all the available power to radiation
is another way of looking at it.
Coupling factor is something else, usually applied in my experience to
relations between tuned circuit inductors.
Not familiar with such a term being used about Yagis. As always, a trip
to Kraus's "Antennas" 2nd Ed. may prove useful.
-Stuart Rohre
K5KVH
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