No, that's not the problem. The problem is that you're looking for a
single voltage between two points separated in space. There is no single
value for that voltage. If you made some kind of "artificial ground"
close to the antenna, then there are an infinite number of possible
voltages between it and the Earth.

But I'm sure you can work it out as easily with virtual photons and 4
dimensional geometry as Reg does with grade school arithmetic. It's
quite simple, really, if you don't need to have the right answer.

Roy Lewallen, W7EL

Cecil Moore wrote:
David or Jo Anne Ryeburn wrote:

Simple isn't always right. Maybe in some other universe, all fields are
conservative, but not in this one.


It might help if the language was made more understandable. Isn't the
problem in getting an absolute ground reference point at the end of
the dipole? It is possible to model a 3D antenna with a 4th dimension
ground "plane".