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From: vallor <vallor@cultnix.org>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Kilowatts
Date: 15 Jan 2025 13:44:05 GMT
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On Wed, 15 Jan 2025 06:21:25 -0700, % <pursent100@gmail.com> wrote in
<F4adnQYtKfjLKxr6nZ2dnZfqnPsAAAAA@giganews.com>:

> Farley Flud wrote:
>> On 15 Jan 2025 03:46:47 GMT, vallor wrote:
>> 
>>>>>
>>>> ok well you didn't mention that and it sounded like a great dipole
>>>
>>> 'twasn't a dipole, 'twas a long wire, and I gave the
>>> radio a really good ground.
>>>
>> 
>> Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!  What a dunce!
>> 
>> EVERY antenna is a fucking dipole.
>> 
>> And don't start scrambling for stupid technical "loopholes"
>> just to save your sorry ass.
>> 
>> EVERY antenna is a fucking dipole.
>> 
>> Now shut the fuck up.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
> i was getting there

So you're both wrong.  Dipoles are tapped in the middle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dipole_antenna

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_wire_antenna

Sigmonster for the Feeb:

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