Richard Clark, W7QHC wrote:
"-you know, the basic stuff of propagation."

I may be able to respond to a question, but I don`t write books.

On the question of ground conductivity and polarization: Soil loss makes
vertically polarized waves tilt forward in the direction of their travel
as if dragging their feet. It`s not all bad as this tilt makes a
horizontal antenna, the Beverage, receive these vertically polarized
waves well.

Best regards, Richard Harrison, KB5WZI