Nic Santeen wrote:
"The RF source applied to a dipole generates a magnetic field and
electric field 90 degrees out of phase (it is a capacitive antenna)."

It could be an inductive antenna or a resonant (resistive) antenna, and
the radiation fields, E&H, would still be at right angles in space, in
the plane of the plane wave, perpendicular to each other and to the
direction of travel.

Static fields distant from a current-carryinng wire are in a small way
analogous. Imagine the current flowing toward you. Electric lines
radiate like spokes radially positioned around the wire. Magnetic lines
are concentric and make circles around the wire. At great diatance from
the wire, the magnetic and electric lines are practically perpendicular
and they are both perpendiicular to the direction of energy flow. Don`t
make too much of this analogy, but it may be illustrative.

Borrow a copy of Terman`s 1955 edition from a library and study page No.
1.

BNest regards, Richard Harrison, KB5WZI

"Richard Harrison" wrote
It could be an inductive antenna or a resonant (resistive) antenna, and
the radiation fields, E&H, would still be at right angles in space, in
the plane of the plane wave, perpendicular to each other and to the
direction of travel.

I am aware of how these vectorial fields look like ...

When I said "magnetic field and electric field are 90 degrees out of
phase (it is a capacitive antenna)", I was refering that in any point in
space, when the electric field peaks, the magnetic field hits zero; when
the electric field drops to zero, the magnetic field change direction and
peaks again in the other direction, etceteras. I said nothing about the
spatial position of their vectors - which is a known, even by me.
I just said that there is a shift(!) between the sinusoidals.

My point is that a clean EM radiation has both fields in phase, which
means that the scalar values of both vectors (electric and magnetic)
change synchronously: when the electric field peaks, the magnetic field
peaks as well, when the electric field hits zero, so does the magnetic
field.

Therefore, I was saying that I suspect the superposition of two different
EM radiation coming out from a dipole. These two fields do not necessarily
reinforce eachother, but rather they create their own counterparts with
wich they go along.

You must have misunderstood me.

Borrow a copy of Terman`s 1955 edition from a library and study page No.
1.

Thank you for the reference.

Cordially,

Nic.