Re: LF: Capacitive top hat question

[LineOne <dhchurch@lineone.net>]

A dry dune must be mainly silica with some organic matter so a good 
insulator. I wonder how deep the deposits were?
Hugh M0DSZ
On 08/11/2015 21:05, Paul Nicholson wrote:
> > I remember to have read somewhere thate (French?) military
> > in the Sahara desert just put a dipole antenna on the
> > sand on top of a dune and it worked fine.
>
> Somewhere I have a paper describing something like that.
> I recall an antenna at ground level or actually a little
> buried, and its effective height was related to the depth
> of the water table below the dry sand.  Maybe a well or
> borehole was used to connect to the 'ground' plane.
>
> I'll see if I can find it.
> --
> Paul Nicholson
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