Richard, I can see you adopt the same attitude as I do towards
questions on this newsgroup which begin with "I have heard that . . .
.. ".

Hardly a reliable start to a question. One gets the impression the
questioner is unlikely to be able to understand the answer and tailors
the answer to suit.

Looking back over my career, I have never(?) taken anything out of a
book (Terman, etc) at face value. The number of occasions on which
errors and uncertainties of one sort or another have come to light has
justified the time and effort expended in checking.

Anybody who quotes Terman as from a Bible has only ever read him but
must have never actually used him in anger. I mention Terman only as
an example but hasten to add, in my opinion, he is amongst the most
reliable of popular technical authors. I have only his first edition
produced in the middle of WW2.

The work which continued during the life and death struggles between
the nations of WW2 never ceases to amazes me. During the battles of
Leningrad and Stalingrad, Russian engineers were designing High
Voltage DC power lines from yet-to-be-built hydro-electric power
stations deep in Asia, into Europe.

Stalin himself was concerned with the nutrition and the future of
school children. During the horrible prolonged battle of Stalingrad he
directed that children and mothers, then living in the frozen sewers
beneath the ruins, should be given top priority with food rationing.
This was based on the grounds that the average life of a soldier in
the city, having just survived crossing the river Volga, was only 7
hours and consequently he would not have time to eat and fully digest
a good meal.

As is well known the Germans ran out of food and ammunition first and
the survivors crawled out of the sewers and burning buildings to
surrender. The German generals must have known then the war was lost.
But it was not until 6 months later, in the Battle of Machines around
the city of Kursk, on the broad summer grasslands of the surrounding
steppes, littered with thousands of burning tanks, wrecked mobile guns
and aircraft, and deserted troop carriers, that Hitler must have been
convinced of ultimate defeat.

But another two years were to elapse and millions of Russian, Polish
and German lives were still to be lost before Russian tanks crossed
the Oder and Russian rockets and shells began to rain down on Berlin.
----
Reg, G4FGQ.

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"Richard Clark" wrote in message
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On Sun, 1 May 2005 23:06:25 +0000 (UTC), "Reg Edwards"
wrote:

Some buried wires

Some?

under a horizontal dipole, at a height of 1/4 or 1/2
wavelengths,

Why that high? Another Wives' tale? What about 1/8 or 5/8 (or even
some fraction in between)?

will, in theory

Whose theory?

, reduce losses.

Clearly loose conjecture. You got any data, or is this merely
rustling baking crumbs out of your apron?

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC