Hi Gary, seems like your the only one that is interesred in antennas on this
Jerry Springer group, so an answer there is.
Piddle means to mess around with things, since I am from
East London it could well be Olde English
With regard to efficiency per unit length. It is well known that the ends of
a 1/2 wave dipole can be lopped off without any noticable difference which
can be seen by the area lost under the normal current flow diagrams, so
efficiency can immediatly improved. When shortening the dipole even more we
get a transition to a straight line current flowline inplace of the sino
soidal curve which again shows a further inefficient portion at the ends
that can be lopped of. What this then shows that we can have a higher
current distribution per unit length with the mainly efficient portion in
the center of the dipole. Now one is in position to introduce a phase change
where one can have two dipoles in the same space taken up in the beginning,
collinier in form and containing only the mainly high efficient portions of
the center of a normal dipole. I see no reason why this transition can be
followed over and over again until the radiator contains an area under the
current curve that is uniform. Transformation to spot radiation
is totaly another matter which I believe should be left to our descendents.
Since you are an experimentor I would be happy to discuss my thoughts
privately rather than take up valuable space that is required for auguments
and pea shooters
Best regards
Art Unwin


"JGBOYLES" wrote in message
...
He may well be correct if we are all lemmings.

Are they the rats that jump off the cliff into the sea? If they are, I am
not
one of them.

people who piddle with antennas are a different breed.

I experiment with antennas, but piddle? I thought in Olde English that
meant
something else.

The rest of you post was interesting, could you provide more detail?
What is
"Yagi syndrome" and lossless coupling to the transmitter?


73 Gary N4AST