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Two dipoles are spaced half a wavelength apart and fed in phase. What is the pattern?

  • A.Omnidirectional in every plane
  • B.Two narrow beams along the axis of each dipole
  • C.Broadside, with maxima perpendicular to the line of the array
  • D.End fire, with maxima along the line of the array

Answer: C

Equal phase means the contributions add broadside, where the path lengths are equal, and cancel along the array axis, where the half wavelength spacing gives a hundred and eighty degree path difference. This is the broadside array. Feeding the same pair in antiphase reverses the situation and gives an end fire pattern. No linear current distribution radiates along a dipole axis, so the last option is impossible in any case.

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