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Subject: [CQ-Contest] A bit of quantum mechanics
From: JamesDuffey via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
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Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2024 12:17:09 -0600
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Charly - Here is a good reference that explains in straight forward terms how 
an antenna resonates:< 
https://www.arrl.org/files/file/Technology/tis/Why%20an%20Antenna%20Radiates.pdf
 >

>From QST, November 1992  - Duffey KK6MC


James Duffey KK6MC
Cedar Crest NM

> On Dec 3, 2024, at 11:41, cq-contest-request@contesting.com wrote:
> 
> Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2024 13:36:05 +0700
> From: "Charles H. Harpole" <hs0zcw@gmail.com>
> To: CQ-Contest Reflector <cq-contest@contesting.com>,    "Charles H.
>    Harpole (Charly)" <hs0zcw@gmail.com>
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] A bit of quantum mechanics
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> RF of some ham frequency composed of electrons emit from an emitter, the
> transmitter, and go up the feed line to the aluminum antenna yagi above. I
> think the electric energy that travels in the feed line is traveling by
> electrons-- I. E. Matter (in traditional physics).
> However, when the matter in those electrons flows into the aluminum of the
> antenna, the RF energy is emitted in the form of a wave (via quantum
> theory),
> I want to ask, does the aluminum lose any electrons into some other medium,
> like free air, and thus is there some small *wear and tear* on an aluminum
> antenna being used for transmission?
> 
> In my deep ignorance that is my first question and because I'm on the site,
> I decided to add a question below.
> 
> Because quantum mechanics tells us that some amount of electrons are
> emitted that do go "backward" downward towards the radio which may or may
> not be in the form of RF, but if it is--it should be detectable by a
> receiver which would have to be receiving at the same time as the
> transmission test was being emitted (unfortunate result but manageable).
> Further, at an appropriate distance, would some receiver hear both the
> transmission and the transmission from the effect of the excitation???
> Would the "secondary emission" be near the same frequency as the "primary
> RF"--- perhaps you could work stations answering that secondary emission????
> 
> Not knowing anything allows me to complain about the idea that a beam of
> light is a quanta (quantum) of both "regular" electrons and waving
> electrons. That irritates me. And I am waiting for science to help me out.
> 
> If I use the pattern of idea development from the previous century, I would
> say I have to wait till the end of this century for the good ideas to
> become published. Seems like the good ideas over history come out near the
> end of a century. Being age 81 now, my prospects are not real good.
> 
> Thank you all for helping me and letting me be on this site with my
> questions. I need some brotherhood every now and then.   Ham radio is the
> best way to go.
> 
> 73, Charly HS0ZCW
> 
> 
> --
> Charly, HS0ZCW
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