Electromagnetic Oddities by Reese West KQ6TT
Some time back I wrote about the E-field not being continuous in radiated fields. I had been taught that they were. Recently, I returned to that idea to take a look at it. Remember that all I write is not of published quality. It is stream of thought as I think about it. Also, most is just first draft quality in writing. So, here I have returned to take a look at radiated fields. Let us look at a radio frequency field radiated from an antenna. Visualize the globe of the earth with latitude and longitude lines on it. Place a very short antenna at the center of the globe with the antenna orientated on a line between the poles. The E-field then radiates outward toward the surface of the globe just like the longitude lines. The magnetic fields radiate outward like the latitude lines. If we chose a point… Continue reading






