John Smith wrote:
wrote:
Art,
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JS
Oh yeah. That ~98% figure, that took for granted the antenna conductors
were chilled at or very near superconducting temps. or, the conductors
were constructed of a "yet to be developed" superconducting material.
But, certainly, you picked up that, that was implied from my previous text.
In fact, the skin effect is a phenomenon which could consume a whole
book to itself. I mean, why rf chooses to only travel the surface of
metal conductors? (why would the surface of metal offer less resistance
than the atoms of the metal inner most? Indeed, if you make the inner
material of silver and the other covering of a conductor of iron, it
still attempts to favor the iron!) Almost leading one to believe it
(rf) is attempting to "leap to the superconducting ether", but then, I
dream a lot ...
Regards,
JS