tom wrote:
Which all means, according to Lord Art, that an antenna won't radiate in
deep space due to lack of the particles (that he isn't sure of the type
of) won't be available to coat your antenna in the correct manner so
that it will be able to make them leap from it.

Of course if a radio signal consisted of charged particles, like he
claims, you could easily bend a radio signal with a static electric
field or magnetic field, which you can't. Heck you could run a radio
signal around right along with the protons in the Large Hadron Collider.
Except for the fact that you can't.

tom
K0TAR

Holy Cow! I've discovered the Holy Grail!

I beat you at your own game Art!

If these antennas work like you say, I should be able to make a beam
antenna to any specifications I'd like with magnets or charged plates.

I hereby claim that an antenna type made with charged plates surrounding
a dipole shall be called the K0TAR Unmodulated Electric Plate Beam
Antenna, and the type with cow magnets surrounding a dipole shall be
called the K0TAR Mystifying Magnetic Beam Antenna. And the type with
charged plates AND cow magnets be called the Super Whizbang
ElectroMagnetic Antenna.

Hmm. That last one could be a problem. Since Art has disproved that
there are really EM waves involved here.

I'll have to think about this some more.

I'll get back to you all later.

tom
K0TAR