Electrical Length - Lengthening Antennas

Lengthening Antennas

Electrical lengthening is the modification of an aerial which is shorter than a whole-number multiple of a quarter of the radiated wavelength, by means of a suitable electronic device, without changing the physical length of the aerial, in such a way that it corresponds electrically to the next whole-number multiple of a quarter of the used wavelength. A lengthening is only possible to the next whole-number multiple of a quarter of the radiated wavelength. Thus an aerial with a length corresponding to the eighth of the radiated wavelength can be extended only to a quarter-wave radiator, but not to a half wave radiator.

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