Reply-To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org From: "Alberto di Bene" Sender: To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org Subject: LF: Re: CFA (once more) Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 15:42:19 +0100 Message-ID: <20010911124219.3706.qmail@nwcst280.netaddress.usa.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: USANET web-mailer (34FM.0700.21.01) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 X-Listname: rsgb_lf_group Rik Strobbe wrote: [...] > Constructing a 10m high CFA or EH-antenna mounted at groundlevel would > already be a big challenge to most of us, if you size that down to 20m > you get a 10cm high antenna that you have to put on the ground. > I wonder if any CFA of that size will work. [...] Well, the 20m EH antenna on demonstration was a cylinder of roughly 15cm diameter and 60cm length (by memory). > Some interesting articles (both for the 'believers' and 'non believers') > about the Crossed Field Antenna can be found at : > http://www.eriinc.com/IEEE/ Thanks for the pointer. I read the first three papers and, indeed, the CFA advocates must have had a tough time there... Another interesting reading is here : http://www.nrb.org/Magarchives/April_2001/Crows_or_Swans.htm Unless we all have misinterpreted the meaning of CFA... in this case the right place to go for info is this : http://www.cfainc.org/ :-) 73 Alberto I2PHD