Meaning "two poles," a dipole antenna is the simplest type of antenna, consisting of an electrically conducting wire or rod one half the length of the maximum desired wavelength. The wire or rod ...

Schwarzbeck Mess-Elektronik, CC BY-SA 3.0. The most basic of antenna designs will be familiar to many readers as the dipole, two conductors each a quarter wavelength long arranged in a straight ...

A simple illustration compares a capacitor to a dipole antenna. For those of you with a penchant for difficult maths, there’s some good old formulae published in the article that’ll help you ...