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Reg Edwards wrote:
[Responding to the question of what useful information could be obtained from measuring the surface soil conductivity at the B, L, and E site] None But I'm sure that won't stop you from your frequent complaints that they "forgot" to measure it. I see you've found other things to criticize, though. . . , except that you are nit-picking as usual. Asking what use it would be to measure the surface conductivity (as you suggested) is nit-picking? You have a strange way of evaluating things. And that B, L & E, all three of them, were floundering about in an amateurish fashion. Ah, you play the role of armchair quarterback very well. Sure is too bad you didn't think of doing the experiment in 1937 -- I'm sure you would have done it right. All AM broadcast stations would be using precisely 100, not 120 radials, and we'd know the surface ground conductivity of the measurement field (but still wouldn't know what to do with the information). The Reg of '05 would have the warm, satisfied feeling of knowing that another seminal piece of work was done by one of Her Magisty's loyal subjects (or was it His Magisty in '37 -- I forget) instead of the gnawing aggravation he experiences thinking that some American ruffians might actually have done something useful. Life would sure be a lot better today, wouldn't it? Yet it had been well known to others for 35 years that soil conductivity and permittivity had a profound effect on ground wave propagation. Propagation, yes. But nobody had a good handle of the effect of ground systems on antenna efficiency until their experiments. All they had demonstrated was that 113 radials was more than sufficient for MF and low HF broadcast propagation which was what everybody already knew. You obviously haven't read the paper. It has nothing at all to do with propagation. And so the rounded-up, Marzipan the Magician, magic number of 120 got stuck in the bibles. A typical American way of going about things. ;o) ---- Boy, it really must hurt deeply to think that some Americans did something that the rest of the world considers to be pioneering. Have some more wine -- it'll dull the pain. But under no circumstances should you actually stoop to reading the paper you're so fond of criticizing. It would just make you feel worse. Reg. Roy Lewallen, W7EL certified Reg's Old Wife -- and inveterate nit-picker |
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