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Old January 18th 06, 06:52 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
Cecil Moore
 
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Default EzNEC Antenna Voltages

Roy Lewallen wrote:
The antenna has
radiation, inductive, and electric fields (well, the radiation field
is actually the transverse electric field component), so how does one
go about getting the voltage as a function of antenna position (EZNEC
current).


You don't. It's not possible. Which is why EZNEC doesn't do it.


The current reported by EZNEC is the net standing-wave current
(for standing-wave antennas). That current is associated with
the standing-wave's H-field which can be measured. The standing-
wave also has an E-field. Is there any way to measure the magnitude
and phase of the E-field? I vaguely remember a florescent light
bulb being turned on by the E-field, glowing brightest at the
tip of a mobile antenna.
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73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp