Power delivered to the second dipole

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Integrating the radiation pattern uses , so its lossless gain is
The receiver lies on the axis, broadside to both -directed dipoles. Thus and their linear polarizations match. At , , giving
At separation , the incident flux is . The Friis transmission equation therefore gives the matched-load power
The far-field and weak-coupling approximations are well satisfied at a distance of about wavelengths for an electrically short dipole. Matching refers to the available received power, not interception of all power in a geometric area equal to the wire's physical size.

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