In 1997 the author published an article on vertical full (and ground plane type half) wave loops for 80 meter DX. In that article it was noted that perpendicular (horizontal) polarization is the preferred polarization, particularly at low elevation angles, since horizontally polarized waves are hardly affected by the finite conductivity of the ground in front of the antenna. An exception when v...

An eikonal model has been used to assess the relationship between calculated strengths for first forbidden β decay and calculated cross sections for (p, n) charge exchange reactions. It is found that these are proportional for strong transitions, suggesting that hadronic charge exchange reactions may be useful in determining the spin-dipole matrix elements for astrophysically interesting lepton...

We treat the physical vacuum as a featureless relativistic continuum in motion, and explore its consequences. Proceeding in a step-by-step manner, we are able to show that the equations of classical electrodynamics follow from the motion of a space-filling fluid of neutral spinors which we identify with neutrinos. The model predicts that antimatter has negative mass, and that neutrinos are matt...

This paper presents a generic small scale channel model for ultra wideband wireless body area network communications. It is based on static on-body measurements in an anechoic chamber by using a vector network analyzer within a 2-8 GHz bandwidth. Two antenna types are used for the examination: dipole and double loop. From the existing data, a generic average channel impulse response (CIR) was e...

This paper presents the numerical evaluation of the specific absorption rate (SAR) calculated with the finite integration technique (FIT) using a glass spherical head model and a λ/2 cylindrical dipole antenna. The model is filled with appropriate frequency-specific fluids with electrical properties that are close to the average brain tissue at the center frequencies 0.835 and 1.9 GHz. The depe...