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From: mixstate@stb.info.com (Harris Boldt Edelman)
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Subject: Eighth-wave, or Quarter-wave?
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Date: 7 May 91 02:24:15 GMT
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 340, Message 5 of 13

PAT often refers tentatively to the small, stub- or button-like
antenna for his cellular handheld set as an 1/8-wave antenna.

It's perhaps time to nip an incipient TELECOM-legend in the bud, and
suggest that the little antenna is more likely to be a helically-wound
1/4-wave, than any kind of 1/8-wave.

Anyone want to confirm this?


Harris   mixstate@stb.info.com  hbe@bertha.jpl.nasa.gov