On Sat, Jul 06, 2013 at 06:05:01PM +0200, Stefan Schäfer wrote:
> Am 06.07.2013 15:16, schrieb Pieter-Tjerk de Boer:
> >This view also at least approximately matches VK1OD's NEC4 calculation,
> >in the sense that he finds an output voltage which is of the order of
> >the field strength times the antenna height.
> Not the antenna height but the distance between the probe and the
> grounded shield of the coax, or the grounded part of the circuit,
> which is the closest grounded part to the probe.
Actually, I meant the real height above ground, multiplied by the
free-space field strength.
But of course, you are right that what the device responds to, is the
field between the probe and the nearby ground. However, the field
strength there will be much larger, due to the fact that the ground
has been "brought up".
This much larger field strength mostly compensates for the much smaller
distance, so the output voltage is still roughly the same as when
one just multiplies the real height above ground by the free-space field
strength.
See the attached sketch: the equi-potential lines in the area near the
probe are much closer together because the pole is at ground potential.
B.t.w., a member of this mailinglist contacted me off-list and pointed
out that there is an article in VHF Communications 96/2 in which this is
discussed in more detail. A German version of the same article has
appeared in UKW-Berichte in 1994/1995 (but those years unfortunately are
missing in our radio club's collection).
> The potential
> difference, the intagral E . ds... Of course the E field is not
> homogen in the electrode arrangement, not a simple idealized plate
> capacitor...
Indeed.
73, Pieter-Tjerk, PA3FWM
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