A loop can indeed radiate harmonics, if it is a reasonable fraction of a wavelength long. A very small loop, tuned to resonance by some capacitance, is less likely to do so.
Cortland (The firm i work for, and my boss, Don't know what I may write; They don't stand by what I might say, Which is perfectly all right.) John Woodgate wrote: > The presence of the high-Q resonant structure that you describe is > clearly the real reason why no harmonics were observed. It is not only a > good antenna *but it very probably cannot radiate odd harmonics*, which > should be the only ones present if the drive waveform was square. ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: [email protected] with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Michael Garretson: [email protected] Dave Heald [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected] Jim Bacher: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: No longer online until our new server is brought online and the old messages are imported into the new server.
