Antenna voltage comparison needs an impedance convention

ID: antenna-voltage-comparison-needs-an-impedance-convention

Antennas with effective areas and receiving the same polarization-matched plane wave have available powers in that ratio. If their matched-load resistances are equal, terminal voltage magnitudes have ratio . With unequal matched resistances the ratio becomes . Open-circuit voltages additionally depend on each antenna's source impedance. Geometry alone therefore fixes available-power estimates more directly than unspecified terminal voltages.

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