[Antennas] Re: "J" poles

[Dan Richardson]

At 08:21 AM 7/14/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>de WB2CPN South Central Pennsylvania  2002.07.14
>
>Good Morning Dan,
>
>A dipole does not have to be fed in the middle.

I never said it did.


>If it's a 1/2 wave and
>the current travels from one end to the other, and the ends are of
>oposite polatity, and these's a current max in the middle, it's a dipole.

What you say here and some others have addressed is the current 
distribution on the antenna's element (I'm do not disagree with that 
analysis) , but you and the others have failed to address the antenna 
*system's* current  path. This means the complete path of the current to 
and from the generator (transmitter). In other words the loop current.

>Monopoles, which nature arhors, could be 1/4 wave antennas, but they are
>really Marconi.      73  Clete


And a dipole is a Hertz.

73,
Danny