[TowerTalk] Antenna surface area

[Stu Greene]

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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