John Smith wrote:
Cecil Moore wrote:
How many ground wires do you see running vertically
from power pole capacitors and transformers? :-)

True. But, given the hundred-of-thousands/millions? of miles in
conductors, carrying noise generating power in a horizontal plane, those
ground wires must only amount to a small percentage of the whole ...

A small percentage of the length of wires - a very large
percentage of the vertically polarized noise. Probably two
S-units of noise at my QTH that goes away during a power
failure.
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73, Cecil http://www.w5dxp.com