[TenTec] Antenna measurements

[art N4UC]

As my old college fields professor would always say, "Starting with Maxwell's equations..."

> Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 22:26:22 +0100
> From: steve at karinya.net
> To: tentec at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Antenna measurements
> 
> 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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