"Frank" wrote
At 1000 m, between a height of zero meters, and 1000 m
the field strength is in the range of 5 mV/m peak. (i.e. including
ground wave). Not sure why the calculation does not agree
with Richard Fry's analysis, but may be due to the fact that
NEC computes ground losses for the surface wave.
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At the bottom of this post is a link to another analysis, this time using
NEC-2 with the input assumptions of my first "spreadsheet" approach.

It shows a field of 84.12 mV/m at 1 km for 1 kW of radiated power.
Adjusting that 1 km field that for the power reduction to 50 watts brings it
to 18.8 mV/m -- which is in close agreement with my spreadsheet value of
18.5 mV/m.

NEC-2 cannot deal with buried radials, but the 1 km NEC-2 field as
calculated here for a perfect ground can be plugged into the applicable FCC
propagation curves to show the groundwave field for a given distance,
frequency and conductivity, as I did in earlier post. Repeating those:

Field Strength Radius
0.500 mV/m 10.3 miles
0.250 mV/m 15.5 miles

In another post, Frank, you wrote "With 50 W input the peak E-field at 1000
m is 62.9 mV/m (44.5 mV/m RMS). At 24 km the E-field is 2.2 mV/m (1.5 mV/m
RMS), at ground level, and 2.0 mV/m (1.4 mV/m RMS) at 10,000 m elevation.
These results appear to be very close
to Richard Fry's analysis, though not sure why there is a 6 dB difference."

I think you were looking at my first post, where I guesstimated 6 dB ground
loss for a 24 km path, and showed 0.773 mV/m there.

The (much) more accurate FCC approach shows only 0.25 mV/m for a 24 km path
with 2 mS/m conductivity, and the difference between that and your 1.5 mV/m
is 15.6 dB -- rather significant.

I don't know for sure what explains all this, but it is interesting to
consider.

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h8...adiatorNEC.gif

RF