On 4/30/2013 12:08 PM, Szczepan Bialek wrote:

It is now perfectly well known that a condenser, if large enough, does not

prevent the passage of high frequency oscillations, and therefore in these
cases

the earth is for all practical purposes connected to the antennae."

Was Marconi an idiot?

S*



If you pick the text you posted here yes, he was an idiot by your
definition. He wasn't really an idiot, unlike you.

Because the earth is NOT "in these cases the earth is for all practical
purposes connected to the antennae" for well over 99% of all the
antennas in use today. Because it doesn't need to be.

tom
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