To avoid misunderstanding each, may I suggest rename "Earth Antenna" to
"Two Earth Electrodes Antenna"?
JA5FP, a friend of mine, wrote a literature on so called "Earth Surface
Antenna" at bellow URL, but written in Japanese. There are some figures
on direction path.
http://www.h4.dion.ne.jp/~ja5fp/gant.pdf
Notes: He has a US Callsign so that any question in English MAY BE
accepted.
7L1RLL - Rick
On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 18:44 +0100, Roger Lapthorn wrote:
> Mal,
>
> Not so, but then you wouldn't want to know as you only transmit with
> radio waves and mouth.
>
> 73s
> Roger
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> On 12 August 2010 18:10, mal hamilton <[email protected]> wrote:
> These so called Earth antennas are but bodged Beverage
> systems, wires laying on or slightly above ground, staked at
> one end as opposed to being terminated with a resistor or left
> floating. Beverages or bodges are useful for Receiving in some
> cases but USELESS for Transmitting.
> An Antenna is an elevated wire raised as high as possible
> above ground, an Earth is a spike driven into the
> ground underneath your feet, basic radio theory.
> G3KEV
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