"NM5K" wrote in message ...

On 4/17/2012 10:47 AM, Szczepan Bialek wrote:
napisal w wiadomosci
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Szczepan wrote:
At transmitting you have the deficit and at receiving the excess.
Without the earth the static build up and radio stop working.

How would you know that when you don't even have a transmitter?

But my "friend" Marconi had a lot. He wrote:
"but in my opinion no practical system of wireless telegraphy
exists
where the instruments are not connected to earth."

You will transmit just fine if you have the ground/chassis/counterpoise.
S*

And without it, fine as well.

It is not true. You know that.
S*

# I guess all the people I talk to using that portable rig
# are just a figment of my imagination?
snip

Nope. Not at all. I have quite a few contacts with a Heathkit HW-7 powered
with 8 "D" cells, a homebrew balanced tuner and open wire dipole. This was
use on board a sailboat.