Re: Antenna Length Calculation...was: "your mail"

[shields@tembel.org (Michael Shields)]

> Kurt, what was wrong with Phil's calculation?  He calculated,
> correctly, that 1/4 wavelength of a 93Mhz signal, in free space,
> is about 20 inches.  In real life, we'd slow down the propagation
> speed a tad below 300Mm/s, but that would only serve to show the
> effective wavelength as a bit *less* than 20". Where does the number
> that you use, that gives us 30", come from?

Phil correctly calculated that it's 80 cm and then made a typo
converting it to inches.

I don't know why you would be converting it to inches anyway.
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