[TenTec] Antenna measurements

[Steve Hunt]

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