John Smith wrote:

I pictured this, I am in a spacecraft doing the speed of light, I key
the xmitter and begin a long winded rant, the antenna is monopole.

Now the signal leaving the rear of the antenna appears to be leaving it
at 2X the speed of light ...

The Doppler effect doesn't change the speed of light, only
the frequency. All EM waves appear to all observers to
travel at the speed of light.

(allowing for the VF of space-ether), however,
the signal off the very front, at least the width of the antenna
conductor itself, cannot leave ...

It doesn't appear that way to you. For you, time has stopped
but you don't know it. You also possess infinite mass and occupy
zero volume but you don't know it.

(since I am traveling at the speed of
light the signal appears to just stay on the surface of the
conductor)--what will happen?

It would make more sense to assume that you are traveling at
1/2 the speed of light and see what happens. Future humans
may be able to do just that. Assume you have a twin brother
back on earth QSOing with you. He's transmitting in a ham
band. What frequency do you hear him on?
--
73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp


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