User talk:LPFR

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If you have any questions, feel free to ask me on my talk page. Thanks and happy editing, -- Joanne B 09:12, 17 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Radiation pattern of the half wave dipole

LPFR, you wrote "You have published in wikipedia "dipole antenna" a radiation pattern that I found "very strange". As far as I know, the radiation pattern of a short doublet is a circular section torus. The radiation pattern of a half wave dipole is a flattened torus. The diagram you published is that of a lengthened (in the axial direction) torus. Would you please tell me where this diagram comes from? Thanks."

First of all, thanks for pointing this out to me. I learned something this morning.

I drew the diagram, generalizing a typical dipole e and h plane diagram such as this one, since I cannot copy copyrighted materials: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/wireless/ps469/prod_installation_guide09186a00806ad867.html So in short, my diagram came from empirical experience, not theory.

Having read through the text that has been added above, I will redraw it as a slightly flattened taurus. Thanks. Konrad

I like this link: [1]. --LPFR 08:52, 15 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]