Re: Kilowatts

On Wed, 15 Jan 2025 06:21:25 -0700, % <pursent100@gmail.com> wrote in
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Farley Flud wrote:

On 15 Jan 2025 03:46:47 GMT, vallor wrote:
 

>

ok well you didn't mention that and it sounded like a great dipole

>
'twasn't a dipole, 'twas a long wire, and I gave the
radio a really good ground.
>

 
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!  What a dunce!
 
EVERY antenna is a fucking dipole.
 
And don't start scrambling for stupid technical "loopholes"
just to save your sorry ass.
 
EVERY antenna is a fucking dipole.
 
Now shut the fuck up.
 
 
 
 
 

i was getting there

So you're both wrong.  Dipoles are tapped in the middle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dipole_antenna

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_wire_antenna

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