gareth wrote:
So, you start off with a quiescent piece of wire, and launch a wave into it,
some of which will be radiated. The rest is reflected off the end, and
arrives
back at the feed point, the open end causing a reversal of the current, and
in a
short antennae, the current arriving back at the feed point is out of phase
with
the voltage and so the antenna appears reactive.

Yep, zero understanding of how antennas work.

Start with "a quiescent piece of wire"; a wire can never be anything
but quiescent.

Move on to "launch a wave into it"; you apply a current.

I don't have enough man years of life left to deal with all the rest of
the nonsense.

So, for those who deny that some of the power is not radiated, whence does
the reactance arise?

One does not follow the other.



--
Jim Pennino