Pulsed communications between dipoles

Previous work on the behaviour of a thin dipole in the time domain has been focused on using the time domain as an aid to understanding the physics of radiation. Analysis has been done by direct methods such as FDTD or TDIE , or by indirect methods using the moment method and Fourier transform (MMFT). Another reason for looking at the transmission from a dipole in the time domain is to explore the potential for wide-band radio communications. In this context the pulses can be thought of as digital signals and it is therefore important to understand the structure of the radiated signals and the form of the received signals. Transmission between two dipoles has been studied analytically with examples given for short dipoles. This paper examines the communications link between two dipoles of arbitrary length.