Nic Santean wrote:
"-from "The Beginners`s Handbook of Amateur Radio" by Clay Laster, page
260."

Clay used many words to say the signal propagates too far to get back to
the radiator. It continues its journey away from the radiator.

Radiation is really caused by exchange of energy between alternating
magnetic and electric fields. They produce each other when they
alternate. Static fields don`t radiate. They soon fade away.

J.C. Maxwell speculated that displacement current produces the same
alternating magnetic lines as conduction current does. He was proved
right.

"Static" magnetic and electric fields move out into space when current
flows and charge builds. When they are no longer changing, the fields at
some distance have reached practical limits and stop expanding.
Alternate these fields, and the fields can build each other and travel
on and on.

Best regards, Richard Harrison, KB5 WZI