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August 24th 04, 04:49 PM

On 24 Aug 2004 12:45:35 GMT, oUsama (Yuri Blanarovich)
wrote:

Here is the perhaps the best outline of the "problem" by VE7DXR and you might
want to try to plug it into program to see the correlation.

Hi Yuri,

I don't see how. On the face of it, it doesn't make sense.

it delivered a signal to the grounded side of the matching transformer.

It is all fine and well to observe that a wire draped along the ground
picks up signal (such an antenna I have seen "named" the Snake in the
Grass Antenna which is more an open terminated coax). However to
proudly state that it delivers it to ground begs the obvious comment
"how do you know?"

You must in fact break the connection, insert a load, and this means
it no longer delivers it to ground (can't have your cake and eat it
too). Such receive antennas are admittedly poor in efficiency but
useful as "quiet" antennas (where the receiver gain makes up for low
efficiency).

To cap it off, what is the "problem" anyway?

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC