The impedance of a thin wire transmission line-dipole system with sinusoidal surface currents

Thin wire transmission lines and dipoles with diameters 2a which are much less than the operating wavelength /spl lambda/ carry essentially sinusoidally distributed surface currents. The Poynting vector method was used on a thin /spl delta/-gap fed dipole while retaining the sinusoidal surface current distribution. This present paper extends this work to the much more realistic case of the actual transmission line-dipole radiating system with a surface current distribution (sinusoidal) on both the dipole and the line.