[TenTec] Antenna measurements

Steve Hunt steve at karinya.net
Mon Apr 22 17:26:22 EDT 2013


Stuart,

Can you give us the exact Kraus quote, or a reference, to see the 
context in which he made it?

My 3rd edition of Antennas says:

"Although a charge moving with uniform velocity along a straight 
conductor does not radiate, a charge moving back and forth in simple 
harmonic motion along the conductor is subject to acceleration (and 
deceleration) and radiates."

No talk there of discontinuities - they are not needed for radiation; a 
charge accelerating or decelerating at the centre of an infinitely long 
wire *will* radiate.

73,
Steve G3TXQ




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