[TowerTalk] Peak Voltage at the tips of ants ?

[Lux, Jim]

On 10/4/22 10:30 PM, KD7JYK DM09 wrote:
> I may be crazy here, but, am I the only one that remembers using, and 
> all the drawings in all the books of using, a meter to measure 
> voltage, or current, along an antenna, starting at the feed-point, if 
> one desires, and moving to the tips?
>
> Is this no longer a thing?
>
> Kurt


The picture is probably an example as a teaching aid.  In real life, the 
meter (and the leads) would affect the currents and voltages in the 
antenna, since the antenna radiates.

People use meters along transmission lines, but they're not radiating.