On Feb 24, 2:18*pm, Richard Clark wrote:
*A magnetic antenna (as a loop is often described)
will pick up that (P-static) field as readily as an electric antenna.

Actually the "P-static field" originates directly from electrons while
the EM field originates from photons. What a closed loop does with
those excess electrons is quite different from what a single-wire
dipole does with them. All points on a well-designed loop system have
a path to ground in addition to the signal path. That's not true for a
single-wire dipole. From 1/2 of a dipole, the signal path is the only
path. That's why undischarged dipole systems can arc during conditions
of P-static while loops don't arc. Wouldn't you say that an absence of
arcing is less noisy than the presence of arcing?
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73, Cecil, w5dxp.com