Yuri, I agree in general with your, not out of place, semi-technical
sentiments.

But regarding lossy wires, laid on the ground, as for a Beverage which is
often supposed to depend on ground loss, we must be very careful of making a
virtue out of a vice.

I venture to say the higher an LF Beverage was above the ground the more
efficient, both on receive and transmit, it would have become. The reason a
wire as long the Beverage was so near to the ground was because of the high
cost of a lot of very tall poles.

The rest is old-wives' tales.

Or have I inadvertently changed the subject?
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Reg.