Cecil Moore wrote:
wrote:
.....or doing some actual experiments like I have done.
I have been reporting actual experiences from when
I lived in the Arizona desert and I can guarantee
you that charged particles exist in the dry-air
desert wind. Where does the charge on an antenna
come from if not from charged particles?
It probably comes from charged particles and the earth's
electric field, but you won't know anything for sure unless
you can come up with a mechanism for showing how dust particles
get their charge in the first place. Then you have to measure
it. In some old issue of Scientific American there's an article
showing how to make a simple gadget to measure the electric
charge on a raindrop (about .3 volt, average). I expect you
could use the same idea to measure the charge on a dust particle
during a dust storm. Then you'd have to calculate. That shouldn't be
too hard for you to do, Cecil, you're an engineer.
73,
Tom Donaly, KA6RUH