Dear LF Group, last saturday morning we had the first hoar-frost this year at -6 degree centigrade. All the trees and bushes in the backyard looked beautiful and so did my 13-m-Marconi-antenna. Feede
Hi Tom, few weeks ago the item of wet wood in/near a loading coil was discussed and it seemed to increase the losses. But these would be "magnetic loss" while at the antenna it is the dielectric loss
Tom have a look at this : http://thayer.dartmouth.edu/other/inductor/papers/hfdeice.pdf It's a paper named "Using Dielectric Losses to De-Ice Power Transmission Lines with 100 kHz High-Voltage Excita
Hello Rik and group, thanks for the link - most interesting, but let´s hope they will never come into practice with this idea (I´m rather sure they would not ;-) ). In their references I found "Physi