"Szczepan Bialek" wrote in message
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"Wayne" napisal w wiadomosci
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"Szczepan Bialek" wrote in message
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# My answer was to Sal. He wrote: "(Last year, I used a 20m dipole at 30
# feet, operating out of my van.
# Everything floated above ground without incident and many QSOs.)"

# The floor of the van is the plate and the surface of the Earth is the
second
# plate.
# S*

Just as a mental exercise, assume that the entire setup...van and antenna,
is transported to a place in space where there is negligible capacitance
to the earth.

Is it your contention that the setup would operate any differently?

# The Earth is in the space and the entire setup also.
# The both need "neutralization" like the space-vehicle:
# "Other proposed applications of large-area field emission sources[39]
# include microwave generation, space-vehicle neutralization"
# From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_electron_emission
#
# " Where the electrons are compacted the electrons tend to push each other
# off. Where there
# is a deficit of electrons, electrons are attracted from other sources".
#
# In space is the Solar wind (ions and electrons).
# S*

And if the van/antenna had been constructed on another planet before being
sent into space, is the earth still required or just the other planet?