Steve Olney said
Here in Sydney Australia we have (had) a CFA installation in commercial use.
I have done relative FS measurements (single point) at a distance of 60Km
and can report that the CFA antenna is NOT working as the inventors say it will.
In my early days of Ham radio I visited a radio ham who used one of
those old metal spring double beds as an antenna. The bed was
connected to the hot end of the ATU and the other to the water pipe
of a sink that was also in the room. As I recall he seemed to work
around the UK on 80m using it. I called it the Sleep Mode Antenna (SMA).
The Electronics World and Wireless World articles referring tothe CFA
antenna (I think G4JNT asked) are:
Maxwell's Equations and the Crossed Field Antenna, March 1989
The Crossed Field Antenna in Practice, Nov 1989
CFA Experiments, March 1990
CFA Working Assumption, Dec 1990
CFA-RIP, May 1993
The last article is a documented project, part of a final year
Electronic and Electrical Engineering degree course project, by Colin
Davis to test the CFA antenna. His conclusion disputes the hypothesis
behind the CFA antenna and cast doubts on its performance claims.
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Regards, Peter, G3LDO
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