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The electric and magnetic fields of a current element are found without the usual assumptions made to find the fields of the Hertzian dipole. The result is a simpler and more accurate characterization of the current element: five field components, rather than seven, at any distance; and, three field components, at short distances, one approaching zero.
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W.S. Bennett (2004) studied this question.