Gene Fuller wrote:
I forgot that rain drops and antenna wires are identical. The behavior
of two identical capacitors certainly covers all charge transfer phenomena.

I didn't say what I wanted to say in my last reply to this
posting so I canceled my first reply and am substituting
this one for it. It the older reply made it off my server,
please ignore it.

You obviously misunderstood what I said. I didn't say the charge
equalized between the charged particle and the wire. What I said
is after the charge is deposited on the wire and the particle
that did the depositing of the charge is long gone, the charge
deposited by that particle will equalize between two identical
dipole elements that are link coupled.

Let's say we have a perfectly symmetrical link-coupled dipole
and we deposit one coulomb on one element. Please explain the
laws of physics that prohibit those two dipole elements from
equalizing at the same charge.
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73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp