"Spike" wrote in message
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What I'm after is the relative amounts of power that finish up at the
ionosphere, travelling through the atmosphere, and travelling along the
surface, for a typical mobile set-up.


Which is, after all, quite a reasonable line of enquiry for any
self-respecting _REAL_ radio amateur, but perhaps the thread has
developed in an unfortunate direction because of the characterisitics
of questions posed off-the-cuff and not as a reasoned thesis?

(I know that I have fallen iinto that trap on a number of occasions)