Classically I've used Lambda over two Pi.

But I guess it's worth considdering that there is near field, transition 
region, and far field.....

Thoughts?

[email protected] wrote on 4/29/2004, 9:08 AM:

 >
 > What should our definition of near/far field be? My somewhat arbitrary
 > definition for this case is where the fall-off in the E-field deviates
 > by 1 dB from 20LOG(D/d). A better definition might be some deviation in
 > the 377 ratio of E-to-H. I think I can mimic a dish by properly phasing
 > many dipoles in NEC. Any comments on whether this is a valid method to
 > determine the near/far field?
 >
 >    Dave Cuthbert
 >    Micron Technology
 >
 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: Wan Juang Foo [mailto:[email protected]]
 > Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 12:31 AM
 > To: drcuthbert; [email protected]
 > Subject: RE: Near field/far field calculation
 >
 >
 >
 >
 >
 >
 >
 > Dave and all,
 > That is a wire antenna.  The far field is based on a different criteria.
 >
 > :-)
 >
 > Tim Foo
 >
 > [email protected] wrote on  27/04/2004 11:44 PM
 > > I ran a NEC simulation to make some sense of this.
 > > This is too big of a reflector for NEC to handle
 > > so I made a large rhombic. The rhombic is 1
 > > meter by 1/2 meter. The receive antenna is a dipole.
 > > I moved the dipole in from 80 meters 1/2 distance steps. <snip>
 >
 >
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