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Old October 19th 07, 06:43 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
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On 19 Oct, 09:04, (Richard Harrison) wrote:
Art wrote:

"And "end effect" is the confusion created at the top of the radiator."

I was carrying on the train of thought of the poster, I have made it
quite clear what my thoughts are.

When the signal arrives at the open circuit end of the antenna, current
can not continue its forward flow. It abruptly stops, no longer
producing a magnetic field.


Who says so? I suspect that in the recognition of a measurement
problem
you theorised what might have , could have etc to match your faulty
logic.


..


Energy from the magnetic field is converted to energy in the electric
field for an instant (Cecil`s famous conservation of energy). This
produces an insreased voltage at the open circuit end. This incresed
voltage has more capacitive effect, akin to the "Miller effect" caused
by the higher signal voltage on the plate of an amplifier vacuum tube
than on its grid.


All this is faulty logic manufactured to suit your intelligence.
Radiation is a function of the release of energy from capacitance and
inductance
during a cycle i.e. a parallel circuit called a "tank circuit: which
can also
be seen as a loss less system ala a pendulum.
This goes back to what I say about books. Anybody can write one. It is
up
to the reader to follow the dots of logic displayed to determine
agreement
not to swallow it and memorise it.





On a transmission line or on an antenna system, we used to call this
capacitive action the "Ferranti effect"

Best regards, Richard Harrison, KB5WZI